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Philostratus
Av Ewen Bowie, Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2009
2284 kr
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This is the first volume of collected papers to be devoted to the work of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world, and the most scintillating writer of Greek prose in the third century AD. The papers cover his remarkable range, from …
Severan Culture
Av Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1752 kr
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The Roman Empire during the reigns of Septimius Severus and his successors (AD 193-225) enjoyed a remarkably rich and dynamic cultural life. It saw the consolidation of the movement known as the second sophistic, which had flourished during the second century and promoted the investigation and …
How to Describe a Painting
Philostratus and Art Criticism in the Graeco-Roman World
Av Jaś Elsner, Michael Squire
Inbunden, 2026
1030 kr
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How should we talk about material objects, especially the virtual two-dimensional impressions of painting? A particularly sophisticated answer is provided by Philostratus' Imagines, one of the world's earliest and greatest works of art criticism. Jaś Elsner and Michael Squire situate this Imperial …
Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture
Av Jaś Elsner, Michel Meyer
Inbunden, 2014
2166 kr
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Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with …
Severan Culture
Av Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
653 kr
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The Roman Empire during the reigns of Septimius Severus and his successors (AD 193-225) enjoyed a remarkably rich and dynamic cultural life. It saw the consolidation of the movement known as the second sophistic, which had flourished during the second century and promoted the investigation and …
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland
Häftad, 2023
605 kr
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This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, …
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland
Inbunden, 2020
1919 kr
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This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, …
Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
Av Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2023
1559 kr
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This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', …
Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
Av Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner
Häftad, 2025
392 kr
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This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', …
Philostratus
Av Ewen Bowie, Jaś Elsner
Häftad, 2021
767 kr
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This is the first volume of collected papers to be devoted to the work of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world, and the most scintillating writer of Greek prose in the third century AD. The papers cover his remarkable range, from …
