Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Terra-cotta sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Catalogue of the Bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum
Author: H B WaltersPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354010125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome, from the Rise of Greece to the Fall of Rome
Author: Giovanni BecattiPublisher:
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Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
South Africa, Greece, Rome
Author: Grant ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710081X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity
Author: Susan WoodfordPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521782678
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Stories take time to tell; Greek and Roman artists had to convey them in static images. How did they go about it? How could they ensure that their scenes would be recognized? What problems did they have? How did they solve them? This generously illustrated book explores the ways classical artists portrayed a variety of myths. It explains how formulas were devised for certain stories; how these inventions could be adapted, developed and even transferred to other myths; how one myth could be distinguished from another; what links there were with daily life and historical propaganda; the influence of changing tastes, and problems still outstanding. Examples are drawn from a wide range of media--vases, murals, mosaics, sarcophagi, sculpture--used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The myths are mostly those that are also easily recognized in later works of art. No previous knowledge of the subject is assumed, all examples are illustrated and all names, terms and concepts are fully explained. Susan Woodford teaches Greek and Roman art at the University of London and is engaged in research for the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. A former Fullbright Scholar and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she and is author of The Parthenon (Cambridge, 1981), The Art of Greece (Cornell, 1993), An Introduction to Greek Art (Cornell, 1986) and The Trojan War in Ancient Art (Cornell, 1993).
The Mirror of the Self
Author: Shadi BartschPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226038351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self. Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato’s Greece to Seneca’s Rome. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher’s body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Culminating in a profoundly original reading of Medea, The Mirror of the Self illustrates how Seneca, in his Stoic quest for self-knowledge, embodies the Roman view, marking a new point in human thought about self-perception. Bartsch leads readers on a journey that unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics—and offers fresh insights about seminal works. At once sexy and philosophical, The Mirror of the Self will be required reading for classicists, philosophers, and anthropologists alike.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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