Constructing a Persona Essay. History Assignment.

Constructing a Persona
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After learning about this period of Late Antiquity and visiting the virtual excavation site of Dura Europas and doing the textbook and additional asynchronous reading for this week, I want you to reflect carefully on how Constantine would represent himself during this crossroads in history.What would Constantine have to think about and consider before he dictated how we would be represented? For instance, do you think he would represent himself different in a public monument erected in Rome versus how he would depict himself in a funerary monument? What kinds of aesthetic and iconographic decisions would he have to make in either scenario?virtual excavation site of Dura Europas：http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/dura.htmladditional asynchronous reading：it is in the file!
Constantine wanted to be associated with earlier Roman emperors and I believe that he would be represented in a public monument in Rome that was easily accessible. Some of the earlier emperors such as Trajan were depicted as clean-shaven in portraits or busts. Similarly, Constantine would adopt this appearance, but his statue would be life-size and not merely a bust. In a public monument, Constantine would more likely ...