Author: Lily Ross TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Local Cults in Etruria
Author: Lily Ross TaylorLocal Cults in Etruria
Author: Lily Ross TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Religion in Ancient Etruria
Author: Jean-René JannotPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299208448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help culture, non-Western religious traditions, and the politics of adoption. The life narratives studied range from an eighteenth-century criminal narrative, a 1918 autobiography, and the works of Richard Wright to new media, graphic novels, and a celebrity memoir from Pam Grier."
The Cult of Silvanus
Author: Peter F. DorceyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004096011
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
One of the few studies that deals with Roman domestic religion as practised by the lower classes. The author collects and analyzes the enormous epigraphic and archaeological evidence for Silvanus, The Roman god of agriculture and forests, challenging the widely-held view that private cult was subordinate or inferior to civic paganism.
The Etruscan World
Author: Jean MacIntosh TurfaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134055234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of Etruscan aristocrats. These include early portraiture, the first full-length painted portrait, the first perspective view of a human figure in monumental art, specialized techniques of bronze-casting, and reduction-fired pottery (the bucchero phenomenon). Etruscan contacts, through trade, treaty and intermarriage, linked their culture with Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, with the Italic tribes of the peninsula, and with the Near Eastern kingdoms, Greece and the Greek colonial world, Iberia, Gaul and the Punic network of North Africa, and influenced the cultures of northern Europe. In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. Archaeological and scientific discoveries have changed our picture of the Etruscans and furnished us with new, specialized information. Thanks to the work of dozens of international scholars, it is now possible to discuss topics of interest that could never before be researched, such as Etruscan mining and metallurgy, textile production, foods and agriculture. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all these aspects of Etruscan culture, and more, with many contributions available in English for the first time to allow the reader access to research that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated, The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.
Votives, Places, and Rituals in Etruscan Religion
Author: Margarita GlebaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004170456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.
Local Cvlts in Etrvria
Author: Lily Ross TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Classical World
Author: The Classical Weekly
Author: Etruscan Cities and Their Culture
Author: Luisa BantiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520019102
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description