Sol : image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion / by Steven E. Hijmans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hijmans, S. E., author.

Series:

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 198.

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; volume 198/I

Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; volume 198/II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sun--In art.

Sun.

Sun--Religious aspects.

Sun worship--Rome.

Sun worship.

Cults--Rome.

Cults.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Semiotics--Religious aspects.

Semiotics.

Religion.

War--Religious aspects.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Art

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xvii, 1440 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, color map ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Summary:

"With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved. Emphasizing the danger of facile equivalencies between visual and verbal meanings, his primary focus is Roman praxis, manifest in, for instance, the strict patterning of Sol imagery. These patterns encode core concepts that Sol imagery evoked when deployed, and in those concepts we recognize the bedrock of Rome's understandings of the sun and his cult. Case studies illustrate these concepts in action and the final chapter analyzes the historical context in which previous, now discredited views on Sol could arise."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Volume I. Introduction

1. Art and Sol: some paramaters for an analysis of images of the Roman sun

2. Recognizing Sol: the three main image types

3. Understanding the image types for Sol: main definitions

4. Understanding the image types for Sol: specific cases

The images: catalogue and discussion.

Volume II. 5. Temples and priests of Sol in Rome

6. Solar, divine or imperial? Understanding the radiance of gods and emperors in Roman art

7. The emperor as Sol?

8. Sol-Luna symbolism and the Carmen saeculare of Horace

9. Image and word: Christ or Sol in mausoleum M of the Vatican necropolis?

10. From Aurelian to Julian: Sol in late antiquity

11. The invention of Sol Invictus: an analysis of previous research on Sol

Conclusions

Bibliography

Concordances

Plates. Sol: a viewer's typology ; Catalogue

Index.

Notes:

Extensive reworking of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2009, which was presented under the title: Sol : the sun in the art and religions of Rome.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hijmans, S. E. Sol

ISBN:

9789004406698

9004406697

9789004514720

9004514724

9789004516526

9004516522

OCLC:

1358758521