Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250

ISBN-13: 9781107072244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 406 str.

Zahra Newby

Opis

A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.

Spis treści

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.