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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: Jason König
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-23
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1139560352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising visions of identity and holiness.
Author: Tibor Grüll
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-11-02
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1803275677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient literacy. The eight studies in this volume enrich our knowledge of Roman writing with many new aspects and detailed observations.
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.
