Art & Architecture
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Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion [Hardback]
Verity Platt (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780521861717
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations both in art and in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the a... .... Learn More -
Roman Urban Street Networks [Hardback]
Alan Kaiser (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780415886574
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The streets in a Roman town and the part they played in public life have never been properly analysed. In this study, Alan Kaiser draws on both archaeological discoveries and modern urban geography to investigate this aspect of Roman city life.... .... Learn More -
The Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture [Hardback]
John R. Senseney (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781107002357
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the tech... .... Learn More -
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions [Hardback]
Larissa Bonfante (Author)
£63.00ISBN: 9780521194044
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe, in contrast to many publications that explore these peoples in the context of the Greek idea of 'barbarians' as the 'other'. These varied groups - Thra... .... Learn More -
Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage: Form, Meaning and Ideology in Monumental Fountain Complexes [Hardback]
Brenda Longfellow (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780521194938
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Brenda Longfellow examines one of the features of Roman Imperial cities, the monumental civic fountain. Built in cities throughout the Roman Empire during the first through third centuries AD, these fountains were imposing in size, frequently ... .... Learn More -
Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture [Hardback]
Jennifer Trimble (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780521825153
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? To understand how Roman visual replication worked, Trimble focuses on the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body particul... .... Learn More -
History Written on the Classical Greek Body [Hardback]
Robin Osbourne (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9781107003200
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book is concerned with the ways in which texts relating to classical Greece, and in particular to classical Athens, classified people and with the extent to which those classifications could be seen by the eye. It compares the qualities d... .... Learn More -
History Written on the Classical Greek Body [Paperback]
Robin Osbourne (Author)
£18.99ISBN: 9780521176705
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book is concerned with the ways in which texts relating to classical Greece, and in particular to classical Athens, classified people and with the extent to which those classifications could be seen by the eye. It compares the qualities d... .... Learn More -
The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae [Hardback]
Michael Squire (Author)
£89.00ISBN: 9780199602445
Published by : Oxford University Press
The Tabulae Iliacae are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed in Greek, and most depict the panoramic vistas of Greek epic. Where modern scholars have usually dismissed the ... .... Learn More -
Rome, Ostia and Pompeii: Movement and Space [Hardback]
Ray Laurence (Author); D. Newsome (Author)
£79.00ISBN: 9780199583126
Published by : Oxford University Press
This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people ... .... Learn More