Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi /
The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce fresh insights into a subject which has received increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the so...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
De Gruyter,
2011.
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| Series: | Millennium-Studien ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.