Greek myths in Roman art and culture : imagery, values and identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250
| 1. Verfasser: |
Newby, Zahra
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xx, 387 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Greek culture in the Roman world
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| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
| Online Zugang: |
Online available |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Greek myths, Roman lives; 1. Art and power in the public sphere; 2. Recreating myth in the Roman villa; 3. Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings; 4. Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house; 5. From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm; 6. The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation 7. Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
