Facing the gods : epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature and religion /

"This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world. It explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art but also in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts, and sets the cultural analysis of this unfami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Platt, Verity J. (Verity Jane), 1977-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:	Greek culture in the Roman world.
Subjects:	Rome > Religion. Greece > Religion. Epiphany in art. Rome > Civilization. Greece > Civilization. HISTORY / General. Antike. Epiphanie. Götter. Künste. Griechenland <Altertum>. Römisches Reich. Geschichte 27 v. Chr.-300. Geschichte. Religion > antiken. Romerska riket > kultur- och samhällsliv. Grekland > kultur- och samhällsliv > antiken.
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Table of Contents:

Framing epiphany in art and text
Material epiphany : encountering the divine in cult images
Epiphany and authority in Hellenistic Greece
The poetics of epiphany in Hellenistic epigram
Virtual visions : piety and paideia in Second Sophistic literature
Dream visions and cult images in the Second Sophistic literature
The apologetics of representation in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Dying to see : epiphanic sarcophagi from imperial Rome.