Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity – serie
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Neronian Grotesque
Av Scott Weiss
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across textual and visual media in an integrated way.Weiss' analysis allows for appreciation of the shared strategies of …
Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation
Av Graeme Miles
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly individual re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped. This Roman-era engagement with the …
Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens
Forms of Thought
Av Emily Clifford, Xavier Buxton
Inbunden, 2023
2504 kr
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This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp ‘justice’ or ‘war’ or ‘death’, when they dreamt or deliberated, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they imagine an imagining …
Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens
Forms of Thought
Av Emily Clifford, Xavier Buxton
Häftad, 2024
793 kr
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This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp ‘justice’ or ‘war’ or ‘death’, when they dreamt or deliberated, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they imagine an imagining …
Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature
The World’s Forge
Av Karel Thein
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first detailed study of a large family of ancient ecphrastic shields, often studied separately, but never as an ensemble with its own …
Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature
The World’s Forge
Av Karel Thein
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first detailed study of a large family of ancient ecphrastic shields, often studied separately, but never as an ensemble with its own …
Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity
Between Reading and Seeing
Häftad, 2021
729 kr
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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and …
Neronian Grotesque
Av Scott Weiss
Häftad, 2025
747 kr
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During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across textual and visual media in an integrated way.Weiss' analysis allows for appreciation of the shared strategies of …
Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation
Av Graeme Miles
Inbunden, 2017
3165 kr
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Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly individual re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped. This Roman-era engagement with the …
Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity
Between Reading and Seeing
Inbunden, 2019
2594 kr
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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and …
