Visibility and invisibility in the religions of Rome : papers from the NEH Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome, 2007.

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Corporate author / creator:	National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar (2007 : American Academy in Rome)
Imprint:	[New York] : American Academy in Rome : [Ann Arbor, Mich.] : Distributed by the University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Description:	vi, [1], 400 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 56/57 (2011/2012) Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome ; v. 56- 57.
Subject:	Classical philology. Antiquities. Civilization. Classical philology. Religion. Rome -- Religion -- Congresses. Rome -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses. Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities. Rome (Italy) -- Civilization. Italy -- Rome. Rome (Empire) Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9045943

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Other authors / contributors:	American Academy in Rome.
ISBN:	9781879549203 1879549204
Notes:	Title from p. [vii]. "Earlier versions of [some papers], and of some others that have already been published separately, were presented at a special panel at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association in 2009"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Preface / Karl Galinsky
Introduction: People, places, and rituals in the religions of Rome / Lauren Hackworth Petersen
Parsing piety: the sacred still life in Roman relief sculpture / Laetitia La Follette
On the outside looking in: Pliny's Natural history and the portrayal of invisibility rituals in the Latin West / Richard L. Phillips
Cult and circus in Vaticanum / Regina Gee
Finding his niche: on the "autoapotheosis" of Augustus / A.J. Droge
Urbanism and identity at classical Morgantina / Justin St. P. Walsh
The visual dreamscape of Propertius 3.3 / Emma Scioli
The Pons Siblicius: a reinvestigation / Pier Luigi Tucci
Apollo and Daphne by Antonio del Pollaiuolo and the poetry of Lorenzo de' Medici / Luba Freedman
Leonardo Bufalini and the first printed map of Rome, "the most beautiful of all things" / Jessica Maier
The matrix: Le sette chiese di Roma of 1575 and the image of pilgrimage / Barbara Wisch
"Universal history of the characters of letters and languages": an unknown manuscript by Athanasius Kircher / Daniel Stolzenberg
G.B. Piranesi's Diverse maniere and the natural history of ancient art / Heather Hyde Minor
Architectural amnesia: George Howe, Mario de Renzi, and the U.S. Consulate in Naples / Denise R. Costanzo
A forgotten dig near Ostia / Archer Martin
Research in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2010-2011).

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