AustLit logo

AustLit

Trajan's Column and the Reliability of its Frieze
ANCH2270: Art & Archaeology of Ancient Rome - James Zacharia
(Status : Public)
Coordinated by James Zacharia
  • Bibliography

    Ancient Sources


    Cassius Dio (trans. E. Cray). 1968. Dio’s Roman History: VIII, Harvard: Harvard

    University Press.


    Pliny the Younger (trans. F. Coarelli). 1993. The Column of Trajan, Rome: Editore

    Colombo.


    Wikimedia Commons/Chichorius & Tafelband. Adlocutio by Trajan, accessed 25 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A011_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_XI.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Classic Numismatics Group. Denarius of Trajan, accessed 25 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATraianus_Denarius_114_90020186.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Harpeam. Suicide of Decebalus, accessed 25 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADecebal_suicide.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Thomas Ihle. Statue of Trajan, accessed 25 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATrajan-Xanten.JPG


    Wikimedia Commons/Matthias Kabel. Column of Marcus Aurelius, accessed 24 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AColumn_of_Marcus_Aurelius_detailed_view_01.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Matthias Kabel. Dacian's Committing Suicide, accessed 25 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A49_colonna_traiana_da_est_09.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Gun Powder Ma. Portrait Bust of Apollodorus of Damascus, accessed 25 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AApollodorus_of_Damascus%2C_Greek_Architect_and_Engineer._Pic_01.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Marie-Lan Nguyen. Portrait of Trajan, accessed 24 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABust_Trajan_Louvre_Ma1250.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Carole Raddato. Trajan's Column Scene 25, accessed 24 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATrajan's_Column%2C_Rome_(14271919095).jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Cezar Suceveanu. Trajan's Column, accessed 24 January 2017,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AColumna_lui_Traian_din_Roma8.jpg


    Wikimedia Commons/Vlas2000. Stele of Tiberius Claudius Maximus, accessed 10 October 2016,

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMacedonian_Museums-26–482.jpg



    Modern Works

    Brilliant, R. 1984. Story Telling in Etruscan and Roman Art, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.


    Claridge, A. 1993. ‘Hadrian’s Column of Trajan,’ Journal of Roman Archaeology 6: 5-22.


    Coarelli, F. 2000. The Column of Trajan, Rome: Editore Colombo.


    Davies, P.E. 1997. ‘Trajan’s Column and the Art of Commemoration.’ American Journal of Archaeology 101: 41-65.


    Hannestad, N. 1986. Roman Art and Imperial Policy, Aarhus: Jutlant Archaeological Society.


    Hölscher, T. 2003. ‘Images of War in Greece and Rome: Between Military Practice, Public Memory, and Cultural Symbolism,’ Journal of Roman Studies 93: 1-17.


    Kleiner, F.S. 2010. A History of Roman Art: Enhanced Edition, Boston: Clark Baxter.


    Pelling, C. 2000. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian, London: Routledge.


    Richmond, I.A. 1982. Trajan’s Army on Trajan’s Column, London: British School at Rome.


    Roberts, J. 2007. ‘Trajan’s Column,’ and ‘Sextus Empiricus’ in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, J. Roberts, eds. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Access via The University of Queensland, 4 October 2016

    http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2225

    http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-2032


    Rossi, L. 1971. Trajan’s Column and the Dacian Wars, London: Thames and Hudson.


    Thill, E.W. 2010. ‘Civilization Under Construction: Depictions of Architecture on the Column of Trajan,’ American Journal of Archaeology 114: 27-43.


    Welch, K.E. and Dillon, S. 2006. Representations of War in Ancient Rome, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

You might be interested in...

X