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Volume 99 No. 2
April 1995
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Domitia Longina and the Politics of Portraiture
Eric R. Varner
A reexamination of the portraits traditionally assigned to Domitia Longina reveals that they can be divided into three distinct types. Type I was created at the time of Domitia's marriage to Domitian in A.D. 70; type II at the time of Domitian's accession in A.D. 81, celebrating Domitia's new position as Augusta and consort of the Dominus et Deus; and type III after Domitian's assassination, honoring Dounitia's participation in the plot to kill her husband. The portraits of Domitia attest to her enduring social and political significance.
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