Life, Death and Representation

Author： Edited by Elsner Jas; Huskinson Janet

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9783110216783

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110202137

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Keyword：世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce freshinsights 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 social use and production of Roman art. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis.

Chapter

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’

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