A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Zahra Newby is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She is author of Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue (2005) and numerous articles on Philostratus and Lucian, Greek cultural identity in the imperial period, as well as on mythological sculpture and sarcophagi. She also co-edited the volume Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Greek myths, Roman lives 1. Art and power in the public sphere 2. Recreating myth in the Roman villa 3. Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings 4. Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house 5. From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm 6. The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation 7. Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
Introduction: Greek myths, Roman lives 1. Art and power in the public sphere 2. Recreating myth in the Roman villa 3. Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings 4. Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house 5. From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm 6. The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation 7. Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
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