Life, death and representation some new work on Roman sarcophagi /

Life, death and representation some new work on Roman sarcophagi / [electronic resource] : edited by Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson. - 1 online resource (viii, 446 pages) : illustrations, plans. - Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29 . - Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Before sarcophagi / Habent sua fata : writing life histories of Roman sarcophagi / Tragedy's forgotten beauty : the medieval return of Orestes / The Roman sarcophagus 'industry' : a reconsideration / Multimethod analyses of Roman sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome / In the guise of gods and heroes : portrait heads on Roman mythological sarcophagi / Man or woman? Cross-gendering and individuality on third century Roman sarcophagi / Myth and visual narrative in the second sophistic : a comparative approach : notes on an Attic Hippolytos sarcophagus in Agrigento / Image in distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi / Borrowed verse and broken narrative : agency, identity, and the (Bethesda) sarcophagus of Bassa / Image and rhetoric in early Christian sarcophagi : reflections on Jesus' trial / 'Houses of the dead'? Columnar sarcophagi as 'micro-architecture' / Jaś Elsner -- Glenys Davies -- Janet Huskinson -- Francisco Prado-Vilar -- Ben Russell -- Frances van Keuren, Donato Attanasio, John J. Herrmann, Jr., Norman Herz, L. Peter Gromet -- Zahra Newby -- Stine Birk -- Björn C. Ewald -- Katharina Lorenz -- Dennis Trout -- Jaś Elsner -- Edmund Thomas.

9783110216783 (electronic bk.) 3110216787 (electronic bk.)


Sarcophagi, Roman.
Sarkophag
Relief
ART / Sculpture & Installation


Römisches Reich


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Electronic books.

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