Aproximación a la iconografía de Roma Aeterna como vía de transmisión de un mito

Abstract

The verbal image of Roma Aeterna is one of the most long-lived concepts in Western History. Its tradition flows without interruption from the last decades of the Roman Republic to the end of the Empire. From that time onwards, the expression Roma Aeterna maintained its politic meaning.The aim of this paper is to approach the myth of Roma Aeterna through the representations that gave visual form to this concept, taking as starting point the iconographic elements from the Imperial period, to continue with those that overcome the Pagan Empire. Thus, we will value the global use of certain images from an inter-disciplinary point of view, specially those still present in the popular belief about Rome, in order to show the convenience of strengthening links between different fields, as History and History of Art.