Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture : Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250
by
Zahra Newby
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Greek Culture in the Roman World
ISBN-10
1107420733
ISBN-13
9781107420731
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 16th, 2020
Print length
415 Pages
Weight
720 grams
Dimensions
16.90 x 24.50 x 2.80 cms
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This book explores the representations of Greek myths in Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It shows the crucial role Greek culture played in forming Roman identity, and how this changed over time. The book is aimed at scholars and students of Roman art and of Roman social and cultural history.
Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome''s enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It argues that myths, in addition to functioning as signifiers of a patron''s education or paideia, played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The changing use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art in particular reveals an important shift in Roman values and senses of identity across the period of the first two centuries AD, and in the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values.
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