Author: Patrick Kragelund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : da
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Licinian Tomb
Author: Patrick Kragelund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : da
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : da
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Licinian Tomb - Fact Or Fiction?.
Author: Patrick Kragelud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarcophagi, Roman
Languages : da
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sarcophagi, Roman
Languages : da
Pages : 0
Book Description
Roman Tombs and the Art of Commemoration
Author: Barbara Borg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472834
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472834
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Explores four key questions around Roman funerary customs that change our view of the society and its values.
Living with Myths
Author: Paul Zanker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199228698
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Provides a comprehensive introduction to this important genre, exploring such subjects as the role of the mythological images in everyday life of the time, the messages they convey about the Romans' view of themselves, and the reception of the sarcophagi in later European art and art history."--Publisher's website
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199228698
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
"Provides a comprehensive introduction to this important genre, exploring such subjects as the role of the mythological images in everyday life of the time, the messages they convey about the Romans' view of themselves, and the reception of the sarcophagi in later European art and art history."--Publisher's website
Commemorating the Dead
Author: Laurie Brink
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110211572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110211572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings.
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture
Author: Zahra Newby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720608
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It argues that myths, in addition to functioning as signifiers of a patron's education or paideia, played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The changing use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art in particular reveals an important shift in Roman values and senses of identity across the period of the first two centuries AD, and in the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720608
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It argues that myths, in addition to functioning as signifiers of a patron's education or paideia, played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The changing use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art in particular reveals an important shift in Roman values and senses of identity across the period of the first two centuries AD, and in the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values.
The Social History of Roman Art
Author: Peter Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521816327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
An introduction to the study of ancient Roman art in its social context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521816327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
An introduction to the study of ancient Roman art in its social context.
Tacitus
Author: Victoria Emma Pagán
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786731320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic reflections on the human capacity to misuse power, Tacitus charts the violent trajectory of the Roman Empire from Augustus' death in 14 CE to the end of Domitian's rule in 96. Victoria Emma Pagan looks at Tacitus from a range of perspectives: as a literary stylist, perhaps influenced by Sallust; his notion of time; his modes of discourse; his place in the historiography of the era; and the later reception of Tacitus in the Renaissance and early modern periods. Tacitus remains of major interest to students of the Bible, as well as classicists, by virtue of his reference to 'Christus' and Nero's persecution of the Christians after the great fire of Rome in 64 CE. This lively survey enables its readers fully to appreciate why, in holding a mirror up to venality and greed, the work of Tacitus remains eternal.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786731320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals and Histories. In concise and concentrated prose, marked by sometimes bitter and ironic reflections on the human capacity to misuse power, Tacitus charts the violent trajectory of the Roman Empire from Augustus' death in 14 CE to the end of Domitian's rule in 96. Victoria Emma Pagan looks at Tacitus from a range of perspectives: as a literary stylist, perhaps influenced by Sallust; his notion of time; his modes of discourse; his place in the historiography of the era; and the later reception of Tacitus in the Renaissance and early modern periods. Tacitus remains of major interest to students of the Bible, as well as classicists, by virtue of his reference to 'Christus' and Nero's persecution of the Christians after the great fire of Rome in 64 CE. This lively survey enables its readers fully to appreciate why, in holding a mirror up to venality and greed, the work of Tacitus remains eternal.
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871407167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An internationally recognized historian presents a revealing tour of the ancient world, shedding new light on Greek and Roman history.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871407167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
An internationally recognized historian presents a revealing tour of the ancient world, shedding new light on Greek and Roman history.
Roman Portraits in Context
Author: Jane Fejfer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110209993
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of the patron and his family for generations. There were many ways to earn a portrait statue but such local figures often had to wait until they had passed away before the public finally fulfilled their expectations. It is argued in this book that our understanding and contemplation of a Roman portrait statue is greatly enriched, when we consider its wider historical context, its original setting, the circumstances of its production and style, and its base which, in many cases, bore a text that contributed to the rhetorical power of the image.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110209993
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of the patron and his family for generations. There were many ways to earn a portrait statue but such local figures often had to wait until they had passed away before the public finally fulfilled their expectations. It is argued in this book that our understanding and contemplation of a Roman portrait statue is greatly enriched, when we consider its wider historical context, its original setting, the circumstances of its production and style, and its base which, in many cases, bore a text that contributed to the rhetorical power of the image.