ICS Ancient History Seminar
Konstantinos L. Zachos (Emeritus Curator of Antiquites): ‘From Actium to Rome: The Tropaeum of the Actian Victory at Nicopolis and the Visual Language of Augustan Triumph’
Thursday 30 April, 4.30pm – 6.30pm, in person at Senate House and online. Register here.
This talk presents the results of a long-term interdisciplinary research project on the Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis—a monumental and permanent tropaeum—recently completed with the publication of its third volume. The talk will outline the principal findings of the excavation and study of the monument, including its architectural reconstruction, the analysis of the Latin dedicatory inscription, and the interpretation of the thirty-five sockets that once held the rams of captured ships from the fleets of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. By situating the monument of Nicopolis within the broader context of Augustan visual culture, the talk aims to illuminate the dynamic interplay between monumentality, ritual, and representation in the formation of early imperial ideology, and to highlight the monument as a paradigmatic example of the tropaeum as a medium for the articulation of the visual language of Roman triumph.
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.