Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Ancient & Classical

This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early...

In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer or artist of this period works as a jeweler, carefully setting compositional units in a geometric framework, consistently demonstrating a preference for effects of patterning over realistic representation, and for a unity situated at a higher level than the literal, historical sequence of...

Dionysos erscheint innerhalb der modernen Wissens- und Darstellungsformationen oft als untypisch fur die antike Kultur, als Ausnahme im Kontext des antiken Polytheismus, ja als Instanz einer Differenz, die die Moderne antizipiert. Was konnen neuere Forschungen zum genaueren Verstandnis der vielfaltigen Transformationen des antiken Gottes beitragen? Dieser Frage widmen sich Vertreter aller Bereiche der Altertumswissenschaften in diesem Band, der aus einer internationalen Tagung im Marz 2009 im Berliner Pergamonmuseum hervorgeht. Eine vergleichbare Publikation liegt bisher weder in deutscher...

Dieser Band behandelt die Schaffung von hauslichem Raum sowie kulturelle Fragen zu Privatsphare und Selbstdarstellung in der romischen Antike. Im Zentrum der Diskussion steht eine Gruppe prachtvoller Raume, in denen Grundriss, Architektur und Dekor auf die Anwesenheit von ein oder zwei Betten bzw. Liegen hinweisen. Fur Untersuchungen dieser Art bilden die Ausgrabungen von Pompeii mit ihrer Konzentration von auswert- und vergleichbarem Material eine bedeutende Datenquelle. So enthullen die Ruinen das einzigartige Zusammenspiel von Raum, Einrichtung und Lebensstil und zeigen, wie auf diese...

One of the most important forms of senatorial representation was a monument embellished with an inscription. Inscription and monumentwere always intimately related, so that epigraphy and the study ofancient historyare challenged to workmore closely with archaeology. Only in this way is it possible to establish a correct understanding of how senators represented themselves.Therefore, the articles collected in this volume create the basis for a new viewpoint of the social and cultural history of the senatorial order under the Roman Empire.

Dura-Europos, founded by the Greeks in 300 BCE, became a remote outpost of the Roman Empire in western Asia until it was finally destroyed by a Persian army in the third century CE. It lay buried until it was rediscovered by British troops in the aftermath of World War I, at which time its intact religious sites, military equipment, tombs, and wall decorations were all excavated. In My Dura-Europos: The Letters of Susan M. Hopkins, 1927-1935, authors Bernard M. Goldman and Norma W. Goldman collect and contextualize the correspondence of Susan Hopkins, who accompanied her husband, Clark...