LATE ANTIQUITY: IMAGE AND DOCUMENT

Autores

  • Cláudio Umpierre Carlan Federal University of Alfenas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31669/herodoto.v1i1.45

Palavras-chave:

Money, power, Rome, iconography

Resumo

 The article begins with a description of iconography as historical document. Image in Antiquity had a specific function: to present to a particular social group, mostly illiterate, something that represented the edge of power. It not only legitimized an emperor or king, but was also a type of advertising.