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

ISBN-13: 9781107420731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 415 str.

Zahra Newby

Opis

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.

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.