Zahra Newby (University of Warwick)

Broschiertes Buch

Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture

Beschreibung

This book explores the representations of Greek myths in Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It shows the crucial role Greek culture played in forming Roman identity, and how this changed over time. The book is aimed at scholars and students of Roman art and of Roman social and cultural history.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781107420731
• ISBN-10: 1107420733
• Artikelnr.: 58502699