Verity Platt

Facing the Gods

Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1039g
• ISBN-13: 9780521861717
• ISBN-10: 0521861713
• Artikelnr.: 32465927

Autorenporträt

Verity Platt is Associate Professor in the Departments of Classics and Art History at Cornell University, New York, having previously taught at the University of Exeter and the University of Chicago. Her research interests include attitudes to the sacred image in antiquity, ancient theories of representation, the relationship between image and text, and Roman wall-painting and funerary art. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. Framing epiphany in art and text
2. Material epiphany: encountering the divine in cult images
3. Epiphany and authority in Hellenistic Greece
4. The poetics of epiphany in Hellenistic epigram
Part II: 5. Virtual visions: piety and paideia in Second Sophistic literature
6. Dream visions and cult images in Second Sophistic literature
7. The apologetics of representation in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Part III: 8. Dying to see: epiphanic sarcophagi from Imperial Rome.