Screen LibraryGreek myths in Roman art and culture : imagery, values and identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 /
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Greek culture in the Roman world
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 387 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-384) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107072244 1107072247 |
| Index Number: | N7760 |
| CLC: | J154.609.2 |
| Call Number: | J154.609.2/N535 |
| Contents: | Art and power in the public sphere -- Recreating myth in the Roman villa -- Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings -- Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house -- From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm -- The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation -- Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth. |