Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi /
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| Imprint: | New York : De Gruyter, 2010. |
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| Description: | viii, 446 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29 Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8288105 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Before Sarcophagi
- 2. Habent sua fata: Writing life histories of Roman Sarcophagi
- 3. Tragedy's Forgotten Beauty: the Medieval Return of Orestes
- 4. The Roman Sarcophagus 'Industry': a Reconsideration
- 5. Multimethod Analyses of Roman Sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
- 6. In the Guise of Gods and Heroes: Portrait Heads on Roman Mythological Sarcophagi
- 7. Man or Woman? Cross-gendering and Individuality on Third Century Roman Sarcophagi
- 8. Myth and Visual Narrative in the Second Sophistic - a Comparative Approach: Notes on an Attic Hippolytos Sarcophagus in Agrigento
- 9. Image in Distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi
- 10. Borrowed Verse and Broken Narrative: Agency, Identity, and the (Bethesda) Sarcophagus of Bassa
- 11. Image and Rhetoric in Early Christian Sarcophagi: Reflections on Jesus' Trial
- 12. 'Houses of the dead'? Columnar sarcophagi as 'micro-architecture'
- List of Contributors
- Index