Life, death and representation [electronic resource] : some new work on Roman sarcophagi / edited by Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson.
Material type: TextSeries: Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29.Publisher: New York : De Gruyter, 2011Description: 1 online resource (viii, 446 pages) : illustrations, plansContent type:- text
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- 9783110216783 (electronic bk.)
- 3110216787 (electronic bk.)
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- NB1810 .L47 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Jaś Elsner -- Before sarcophagi / Glenys Davies -- Habent sua fata : writing life histories of Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson -- Tragedy's forgotten beauty : the medieval return of Orestes / Francisco Prado-Vilar -- The Roman sarcophagus 'industry' : a reconsideration / Ben Russell -- Multimethod analyses of Roman sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome / Frances van Keuren, Donato Attanasio, John J. Herrmann, Jr., Norman Herz, L. Peter Gromet -- In the guise of gods and heroes : portrait heads on Roman mythological sarcophagi / Zahra Newby -- Man or woman? Cross-gendering and individuality on third century Roman sarcophagi / Stine Birk -- Myth and visual narrative in the second sophistic : a comparative approach : notes on an Attic Hippolytos sarcophagus in Agrigento / Björn C. Ewald -- Image in distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi / Katharina Lorenz -- Borrowed verse and broken narrative : agency, identity, and the (Bethesda) sarcophagus of Bassa / Dennis Trout -- Image and rhetoric in early Christian sarcophagi : reflections on Jesus' trial / Jaś Elsner -- 'Houses of the dead'? Columnar sarcophagi as 'micro-architecture' / Edmund Thomas.
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