Author: Hélène Morlier
Publisher: Ecole Française de Rome
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Ancient
Languages : it
Pages : 738
Book Description
La mosaïque gréco-romaine IX
Author: Hélène Morlier
Publisher: Ecole Française de Rome
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Ancient
Languages : it
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher: Ecole Française de Rome
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Ancient
Languages : it
Pages : 738
Book Description
La mosaïque gréco-romaine VIII
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Greco-Roman
Languages : fr
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Greco-Roman
Languages : fr
Pages : 536
Book Description
La mosaïque gréco-romaine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Greco-Roman
Languages : fr
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mosaics, Greco-Roman
Languages : fr
Pages : 600
Book Description
Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100
Author: Joshua J. Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192659391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
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 fourth century BC, these disciplines took on exciting new directions during Hellenistic times. Kings imported exotic species into their royal capitals from faraway lands. Travel writers described unusual creatures that they had never previously encountered. And buyers from a range of social levels chose works of art featuring animals and plants to decorate their palaces, houses and tombs. While textual sources shed some light on these developments, the central premise of Art, Science and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean is that our surviving artistic evidence permits a fuller understanding. Accordingly, the study brings together a rich body of visual material that invites new observations on how and why knowledge of the natural world became so important during this period. It is suggested that this cultural phenomenon affected many different groups in society: from kings in Alexandria and Pergamon to provincial aristocrats in the Levant, and from the Julio-Claudian imperial family to prosperous homeowners in Pompeii. By analysing the works of art produced for these individuals, a vivid picture emerges of this remarkable aspect of ancient culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192659391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
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 fourth century BC, these disciplines took on exciting new directions during Hellenistic times. Kings imported exotic species into their royal capitals from faraway lands. Travel writers described unusual creatures that they had never previously encountered. And buyers from a range of social levels chose works of art featuring animals and plants to decorate their palaces, houses and tombs. While textual sources shed some light on these developments, the central premise of Art, Science and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean is that our surviving artistic evidence permits a fuller understanding. Accordingly, the study brings together a rich body of visual material that invites new observations on how and why knowledge of the natural world became so important during this period. It is suggested that this cultural phenomenon affected many different groups in society: from kings in Alexandria and Pergamon to provincial aristocrats in the Levant, and from the Julio-Claudian imperial family to prosperous homeowners in Pompeii. By analysing the works of art produced for these individuals, a vivid picture emerges of this remarkable aspect of ancient culture.
La mosaïque gréco-romaine IX
Author: Hélène Morlier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782728307289
Category : Mosaics, Ancient
Languages : de
Pages : 1398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782728307289
Category : Mosaics, Ancient
Languages : de
Pages : 1398
Book Description
Women and War in Antiquity
Author: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
Author: Konstantinos Spanoudakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110339420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two parts, aiming at representing world-history. This volume consists mainly of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonnus held in Rethymno, Crete in May 2011. With twentyfour essays, an international team of specialists place Nonnus firmly in his time's context. After an authoritative Introduction by Pierre Chuvin, chapters on Nonnus and the literary past, the visual arts, Late Antique paideia, Christianity and his immediate and long-range afterlife (to modern times) offer a wide-ranging and innovative insight into the man and his world. The volume moves on beyond stereotypes to inaugurate a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110339420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two parts, aiming at representing world-history. This volume consists mainly of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonnus held in Rethymno, Crete in May 2011. With twentyfour essays, an international team of specialists place Nonnus firmly in his time's context. After an authoritative Introduction by Pierre Chuvin, chapters on Nonnus and the literary past, the visual arts, Late Antique paideia, Christianity and his immediate and long-range afterlife (to modern times) offer a wide-ranging and innovative insight into the man and his world. The volume moves on beyond stereotypes to inaugurate a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.
Die Zeugnisse ägyptischer Religion und Kunstelemente im römischen Deutschland
Author: Günter Grimm
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004294732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Preliminary material -- EINLEITUNG -- MATERIALSICHTUNG -- ÄGYPTISCHE KUNSTELEMENTE -- DENKMÄLER ZUR VEREHRUNG ÄGYPTISCHER GOTTHEITEN -- ZUSAMMENFASSUNG -- EXKURS: Germanen in Ägypten -- SYSTEMATISCHER KATALOG -- ADDENDA -- VERZEICHNISSE -- GENERALREGISTER.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004294732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Preliminary material -- EINLEITUNG -- MATERIALSICHTUNG -- ÄGYPTISCHE KUNSTELEMENTE -- DENKMÄLER ZUR VEREHRUNG ÄGYPTISCHER GOTTHEITEN -- ZUSAMMENFASSUNG -- EXKURS: Germanen in Ägypten -- SYSTEMATISCHER KATALOG -- ADDENDA -- VERZEICHNISSE -- GENERALREGISTER.
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521844918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521844918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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From Wilderness to Paradise: A Sixth-Century Mosaic Pavement at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica, Libya
Author: Jane Chick
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803277319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
An in-depth study of the large mosaic pavement in the East Church at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica, Libya. Consisting of fifty panels, each panel with a different image, it has frequently been dismissed as random with no overarching scheme. This book argues that the remarkably rich and complex mosaic should be understood as a coherent whole.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803277319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
An in-depth study of the large mosaic pavement in the East Church at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica, Libya. Consisting of fifty panels, each panel with a different image, it has frequently been dismissed as random with no overarching scheme. This book argues that the remarkably rich and complex mosaic should be understood as a coherent whole.