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Author: Jennifer Trimble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 0521825156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains why Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms.
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-05-17
Total Pages: 247
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brenda Longfellow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 047213065X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating shift toward more nuanced interpretations of Roman art that look at different kinds of social knowledge and local contexts
Author: Robin Osborne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-08-31
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1350226610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
Author: Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2017-09-30
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1785706772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).
Author: Molly Lindner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0472118951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines portraits of Rome's Vestal Virgins as artistic documents and political vehicles
Author: Anna Anguissola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108418430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first study of a crucial aspect of Roman stone sculpture, exploring the functions and aesthetics of non-figural supports.
Author: Steven D. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107033985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that Aelian's important work on animals, the De natura animalium, represents a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome. His fascination with animals reflects the cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics.
Author: Jaś Elsner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0191081094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations.
Author: Aaron P. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1107354870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPorphyry, a native of Phoenicia educated in Athens and Rome during the third century AD, was one of the most important Platonic philosophers of his age. In this book, Professor Johnson rejects the prevailing modern approach to his thought, which has posited an early stage dominated by 'Oriental' superstition and irrationality followed by a second rationalizing or Hellenizing phase consequent upon his move west and exposure to Neoplatonism. Based on a careful treatment of all the relevant remains of Porphyry's originally vast corpus (much of which now survives only in fragments), he argues for a complex unity of thought in terms of philosophical translation. The book explores this philosopher's critical engagement with the processes of Hellenism in late antiquity. It provides the first comprehensive examination of all the strands of Porphyry's thought that lie at the intersection of religion, theology, ethnicity and culture.
