Greek 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 |
Series: |
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. |