Life, Death and Representation

Titel: Life, Death and Representation : Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2010
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (446 p.)
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Sprache: Englisch
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Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; 29
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ISBN: 9783110202137 ; 9783110216783 ; 9783110482317
  • Abbreviations
  • p. VII
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • Before Sarcophagi
  • p. 21
  • 2
  • Habent sua fata: Writing life histories of Roman Sarcophagi
  • p. 55
  • 3
  • Tragedy's Forgotten Beauty: the Medieval Return of Orestes
  • p. 83
  • 4
  • The Roman Sarcophagus 'Industry': a Reconsideration
  • p. 119
  • 5
  • Multimethod Analyses of Roman Sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
  • p. 149
  • 6
  • In the Guise of Gods and Heroes: Portrait Heads on Roman Mythological Sarcophagi
  • p. 189
  • 7
  • Man or Woman? Cross-gendering and Individuality on Third Century Roman Sarcophagi
  • p. 229
  • 8
  • Myth and Visual Narrative in the Second Sophistic - a Comparative Approach: Notes on an Attic Hippolytos Sarcophagus in Agrigento
  • p. 261
  • 9
  • Image in Distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi
  • p. 309
  • 10
  • Borrowed Verse and Broken Narrative: Agency, Identity, and the (Bethesda) Sarcophagus of Bassa
  • p. 337
  • 11
  • Image and Rhetoric in Early Christian Sarcophagi: Reflections on Jesus' Trial
  • p. 359
  • 12
  • 'Houses of the dead'? Columnar sarcophagi as 'micro-architecture'
  • p. 387
  • List of Contributors
  • p. 437
  • Index
  • p. 441