The divine horseman in the art of the western Roman Empire

Mackintosh, Majorie Carol (1992). The divine horseman in the art of the western Roman Empire. PhD thesis The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000dff6

Abstract

This thesis examines the image of the mounted god in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Artists in the provinces often turned to Roman, actually Graeco-Roman, models when developing an iconographical form for local deities. The thesis investigates the transformation of Graeco-Roman imagery and looks at the way artists adapted the Roman forms which would have become familiar to them with the advance of the Roman army and Roman settlement in the provinces of the western part of the empire.

The mounted gods discussed are the Celtic Mars and Jupiter, whose Roman names conceal their Celtic identity, Epona, the Dioscuri in the western Empire, the Thracian Rider and the Danubian Rider cult.

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