Un ‘nuovo’ ritratto di Giulio Cesare tra i disiecta membra del Forum Iulium

• Autores: Francesco Paolo Arata
• Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 134, Nº. 2, 2022, págs. 415-434
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The paper examines a fragment of historical relief from the area of the Forum of Caesar in Rome, belonging to a Trajanic panel depicting a public ceremony. The fragment contains two heads superimposed in profile: one in ideal character, the other in the foreground marked by portrait features, whose characteristics point towards the image of Julius Caesar. The relief could be part of the propagandistic and self-celebratory events promoted by the Emperor Trajan, aimed at enhancing the figure of Caesar, not only as the progenitor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, but as an exemplum virtutis and undisputed military genius. The contextual presence on the same historical relief of the temple of Fortuna Redux, of Caesar flanked by the Genius Populi Romani (or Honos) and the lictors taking part in the procession, unequivocally points to an official ceremony. The depiction of the temple of Fortuna Redux itself may also provide further clues for the hypothesis of its existence already in the late Republican period.