Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Ancient & Classical

Drawing on the Collection of Classical Antiquities in Berlin as an example, Astrid Fendt examines the collection, restoration and presentation of Greek and Roman sculptures in the 19th century. The focus is on the relationship between restoration and science: what images of antiquity (antiquities) are shaped by or derived from the restoration? Based on a detailed catalogue, the restoration history of the classical sculptures in Berlin will be written for the first time ever with a comparative look at other relevant European collections. The result is a fundamental approach to the history...

The ancient city of Rome can be understood as an ensemble of monuments, as a space of action for its inhabitants, as a literary construction. Communication took place in it, about it and through it; that is by means of furnishing it with a conscious programme of buildings and works of art. From the perspective of various classical disciplines, the papers in this volume analyse the relationships between these three forms of communication about the city of Rome from the beginning of the Principate to Late Antiquity.

Unterschiedliche soziale Gruppen (Identitaten) nutzten den Raum nicht nur in spezifischer Weise, sondern entwickelten auch sehr eigene Raumkonzepte, die haufig parallel bestehen. Unter Betrachtung dieser parallelen, vielschichtigen Raumnutzung lasst sich die Dynamik der Prozesse im Raum besser abbilden. Die Beitrage des Bandes untersuchen diese Fragestellung aus mannigfaltiger Perspektive.

Dieses Quellenbuch enthalt die erste vollstandige Sammlung und Ubersetzung antiker lateinischer Texte bis in die konstantinische Zeit uber die Skythen und weitere nomadische, dem skythischen Kulturkreis angehorende Volker wie Massageten, Essedonen, Daher, Saken etc. Damit bietet es einen umfangreichen Einblick in die romischen Vorstellungen von der nomadischen Kultur und Lebensweise. Das Quellenbuch unterstutzt Historiker, Archaologen, Ur- und Fruhgeschichtler, Philologen und Ethnologen in ihrer Forschungsarbeit.

Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered nearly the entirety of the known world while wearing armor made of cloth. How is that possible? In Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor, Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete provide the answer.

An extensive multiyear project in experimental archaeology, this pioneering study presents a thorough investigation of the linothorax, linen armor worn by the Greeks, Macedonians, and other ancient Mediterranean warriors. Because the linothorax was made of cloth, no examples of it have...