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Item Number: 112455
Title: Living with Myths : The Imagery of Roman Sarcophagi
Author: Zanker, Paul ; Bjorn C. Ewald ; Julia Slater
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780199228690
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 29cm., hardcover, 428pp. prof. illus., 230 plates. most in color. English translationn of "Mit Mythen Leben" pub. Munich 2003. Summary: Roman sarcophagi have fascinated posterity since the Middle Ages, largely because of their mythological reliefs. Living with Myths provides a comprehensive introduction to this important genre, exploring such subjects as the role of the mythological images in everyday life of the time, the messages they convey about the Romans' view of themselves, and the reception of the sarcophagi in later European art and art history. The volume is fully illustrated with high-quality photographs, which enable readers to appreciate the artistic quality of the reliefs and to explore for themselves the messages they convey. Together with the text, which includes analyses of specific sarcophagi, the pictures open up a panorama of Roman cultural history in the 2nd to the early 4th centuries CE. (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation)
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