The Roman Salute Winkler, Martin M. Published by The Ohio State University Press Winkler, M.. The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2009. Project MUSE., https://muse.jhu.edu/. For additional information about this book https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27815 No institutional affiliation (5 Jul 2018 23:11 GMT)
illustrations 1. Trajan s Column, Scenes LXXXIV LXXXV. Trajan conducting sacrifice. From Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Trajanssäule, vol. 4 (Berlin: Riemer, 1900). 19 2. Trajan s Column, Scenes CI CII. Trajan being saluted. From Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Trajanssäule, vol. 4 (Berlin: Riemer, 1900). 20 3. Trajan s Column, Scene CXLI. Trajan receiving Dacian chiefs. From Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Trajanssäule, vol. 4 (Berlin: Riemer, 1900). 21 4. Detail from Dionysus and Ariadne sarcophagus. Author s photograph. 32 5. Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius from Fascist angle. Author s photograph. 35 6. Marble statue of Marcus Aurelius. Author s photograph. 38 7. The Robe/Demetrius and the Gladiators. Gladiators saluting Caligula. Twentieth Century-Fox. 41 8 10. The Vanishing American. The pledge and flag salute. Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount. 63 11. The Indian Fighter. Indian chief greeting white officer. Bryna Productions/United Artists. 64 vii
viii / Illustrations 12. Jeremiah Johnson. Crow warrior saluting. Warner Bros. 65 13. Souvenir program of stage production of Ben-Hur; Act III, Tableau 3. Author s collection. 72 14. Souvenir program of stage production of Ben-Hur; second image of Act IV, Tableau 1. Author s collection. 74 15. La vie et la passion de Jésus-Christ, n. s. Jesus, age twelve, greeting Mary and Joseph in the Temple. Pathé Frères. 83 16. Nerone. The opening tableau: Nero, far r., being saluted. Ambrosio. 86 17. Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii (1913). The opening shot. Ambrosio. 90 18. Cabiria. Furius Axilla taking his leave from his hosts. Itala Film. 100 19. Cabiria. Sophonisba and Syphax formally saluting each other. Itala Film. 100 20. Cabiria. Maciste foreshadowing Mussolini. Itala Film. 116 21. Scipione l Africano. Scipio (center background, behind row of lictors) and the crowd. Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche. 118 22. Scipione l Africano. Hannibal saluted by messenger. Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche. 120 23. Statue of athlete in front of the Amsterdam Olympic stadium, 1928. Author s collection. 130 24. Cleopatra (1934). Cleopatra saluting Caesar. Paramount/ Universal. 137 25. Quo Vadis (1951). Marcus Vinicius, holding his triumph, saluting Nero. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 144 26. Quo Vadis (1951). Nero returning salute. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. 144 27. Helen of Troy (1956). Priam (back to camera) saluting Trojan officer. Warner Bros. 153 28. Rex Warner, The Young Caesar. Cover illustration of paperback edition. Author s collection. 154
Illustrations / ix 29. Ben-Hur (1959). Messala arriving in Jerusalem. Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. 155 30. The Greatest Story Ever Told. King Herod receiving Roman officer. United Artists/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 156 31. Solomon and Sheba. Pharaoh, his court, and Adonijah s henchman hailing the false king of Israel. United Artists/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 157 32. Spartacus (1960). Hail Crassus! Julius Caesar and senators except Gracchus acknowledging the new powers of Crassus. Bryna Productions/Universal. 158 33. Cleopatra (1963). Julius Caesar, unimpressed by Egyptian pomp, salutes King Ptolemy while looking for Cleopatra. Twentieth Century-Fox. 159 34. The Fall of the Roman Empire. Commodus saluting the crowd during his triumphal entry into Rome. Samuel Bronston Productions. 163 35. Titus. An inebriated Emperor Saturninus giving the Roman salute in front of the Fascist Colosseo quadrato. Twentieth Century-Fox. 164 36. Gladiator. Tigris of Gaul entering the Colosseum on his chariot. Dreamworks/Universal. 165 37. Alexander. Alexander on his triumphant entry into Babylon. Warner Bros. 168 38 39. Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror. Varieties of the Roman salute in outer space. Paramount. 170 40 41. Rome. Caesar receiving combination pectoral and straight-arm salute. HBO. 175 42. Apache Gold. The salute in the American West as imagined in Western Germany. Rialto Film. 177 43. Fahrenheit 451. A variant of the salute in a futuristic totalitarian society. Enterprise Vineyard/Universal. 177 44. The Bible: In the Beginning.... Adam s first gesture at the culmination of the world s creation. Twentieth-Century Fox. 180