Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi write by Michael Koortbojian. This book was released on 1995. Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Koortbojian makes bold, original, and well-grounded claims regarding the structure of narrative as it appears on a series of mythological sarcophagi. He achieves remarkable clarity and depth with economical description and analysis. The book will interest students not only of Roman art but also of all visual narrative and mythology."--Leonard Barkan, Samuel Rudin Professor of English, New York University "Koortbojian makes bold, original, and well-grounded claims regarding the structure of narrative as it appears on a series of mythological sarcophagi. He achieves remarkable clarity and depth with economical description and analysis. The book will interest students not only of Roman art but also of all visual narrative and mythology."--Leonard Barkan, Samuel Rudin Professor of English, New York University
Wandering Myths
Wandering Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wandering Myths write by Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Wandering Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
Living with Myths
Living with Myths - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living with Myths write by Paul Zanker. This book was released on 2012-12-13. Living with Myths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Provides a comprehensive introduction to this important genre, exploring such subjects as the role of the mythological images in everyday life of the time, the messages they convey about the Romans' view of themselves, and the reception of the sarcophagi in later European art and art history."--Publisher's website
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture write by Zahra Newby. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.
The Frame in Classical Art
The Frame in Classical Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Frame in Classical Art write by Verity Platt. This book was released on 2017-04-20. The Frame in Classical Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within.
