Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi / edited by Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elsner, Jaś., Editor.

Contributor:

Elsner, Jaś.

Huskinson, Janet.

Series:

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29.

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sarcophagi, Roman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Jas Elsner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK; Janet Huskinson, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Summary:

This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving 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. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. 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. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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'

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613164797

9781283164795

1283164795

9783110216783

3110216787

OCLC:

723944041