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Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece
Memory, Monuments, Texts
Inbunden, 2023
2099 kr
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Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventional thinking about the temporal positioning of imperial …
Statues and Cities
Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
Av John Ma
Häftad, 2015
871 kr
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Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting …
Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples
Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE-79 CE)
Inbunden, 2014
3083 kr
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This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Roman villas expressed a novel architectural language which was developed by designers …
Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100
Inbunden, 2021
2099 kr
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The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as zoology and botany during the …
The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE
Inbunden, 2022
2099 kr
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Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various …
Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society
Inbunden, 2015
1500 kr
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Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the slave from the citizen? Was there a Hellenistic etiquette of sitting down? How did Hellenistic Greeks feel about the bodies of the disabled and the elderly? And what did it mean to Tuck-for-Luck?This …
Emperors and Ancestors
Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition
Inbunden, 2015
2847 kr
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Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors …
Mimetic Contagion
Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch
Inbunden, 2016
1771 kr
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When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, …
Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome
Inbunden, 2019
1880 kr
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This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from the first century BC to the second century …
Tomb Plundering in Late Antique Italy
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Fears of tomb desecration, plundering, robbing, and looting have been …
Pliny's Catalogue of Culture
Art and Empire in the Natural History
Av Sorcha Carey
Häftad, 2006
1676 kr
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One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a …
Staging the World
Spoils, Captives, and Representations in the Roman Triumphal Procession
Inbunden, 2009
3280 kr
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Staging the World is an illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession in its capacity as spectacle and performance. Ida Ostenberg analyses how Rome presented and perceived the defeated on parade. Spoils, captives, and representations are the objects, and the basic questions to be asked …
The Roman Nude
Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300
Inbunden, 2005
3706 kr
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Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men were portrayed naked holding weapons - the naked emperor might wield the thunderbolt of Jupiter - while Roman women assumed the guise of the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images, modern viewers are usually …
Statues in Roman Society
Representation and Response
Inbunden, 2004
4224 kr
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Statues are among the most familiar remnants of classical art. Yet their prominence in ancient society is often ignored. In the Roman world statues were ubiquitous. Whether they were displayed as public honours or memorials, collected as works of art, dedicated to deities, venerated as gods, or …
Pliny's Catalogue of Culture
Art and Empire in the Natural History
Av Sorcha Carey
Inbunden, 2003
1545 kr
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One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a …
The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt
Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion
Inbunden, 2006
4782 kr
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This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here …
Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Victory and Virtue
Av Zahra Newby
Inbunden, 2005
4631 kr
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The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving …
Truly Beyond Wonders
Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios
Inbunden, 2010
2500 kr
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In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of …
Ancient Rome as a Museum
Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting
Inbunden, 2012
2063 kr
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In antiquity, Rome represented one of the world's great cultural capitals. The city constituted a collective repository for various commemoratives, cultural artefacts, and curiosities, not to mention plunder taken in war, and over its history became what we might call a 'museum city'. Ancient Rome …
The Roman Nude
Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300
Häftad, 2011
1400 kr
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Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men were portrayed naked holding weapons. The naked emperor might wield the thunderbolt of Jupiter, while Roman women assumed the guide of the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images, modern viewers are usually …
Statues in Roman Society
Representation and Response
Häftad, 2011
1321 kr
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Statues are among the most familiar remnants of classical art. Yet their prominence in ancient society is often ignored. In the Roman world statues were ubiquitous. Whether they were displayed as public honours or memorials, collected as works of art, dedicated to deities, venerated as gods, or …
Aniconism in Greek Antiquity
Inbunden, 2012
2039 kr
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In this volume, Milette Gaifman explores a phenomenon known as aniconism - the absence of figural images of gods in Greek practiced religion and the adoption of aniconic monuments, namely objects such as pillars and poles, to designate the presence of the divine. Shifting our attention from the …
Statues and Cities
Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
Av John Ma
Inbunden, 2013
2847 kr
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Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting …
Crisis and Ambition
Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome
Inbunden, 2013
2039 kr
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Tombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents, for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome and its surroundings during the third …
Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia
From Classical Antiquity to Russian Modernity
Av Caspar Meyer
Inbunden, 2013
2797 kr
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Since their discovery in nineteenth-century Russia, Greco-Scythian artefacts have been interpreted as masterpieces by Greek craftsmen working according to the tastes of the Scythian nomads and creating realistic depictions of their barbarian patrons. Drawing on a broad array of evidence from …
