Le corps des souverains dans les mondes hellénistique et romain. Peinture et la femme âgée –

et la femme âgée – devenue

punctuated by his famous haikus

Même si la science le range au nombre des couleurs primaires

dating from the 4th century AD

Le corps des souverains dans les mondes hellénistique et romain. Peinture et la femme âgée –What can the body of the sovereign tell us? How does it help us identify the form and nature of political power? How does it manifest the preeminence and authority of the monarch? This volume studies and compares for the first time, from a cultural and political history perspective, the bodies of Hellenistic kings and Roman emperors by comparing diverse sources: texts, inscriptions, sculptures, paintings and coins. It brings together European