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Item Number: 128549
Title: Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture
Author: Elsner, Jas ; Michel Meyer (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107000711
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 504pp. illus. Contents: 1. On the sublime in architecture, Edmund Thomas. 2. Sublime histories, exceptional viewers: Trajan's Column and its visibility, Francesco de Angelis. 3. Corpore enormi: the rhetoric of physical appearance in Suetonius and imperial portrait statuary, Jennifer Trimble. 4. Beauty and the Roman female portrait, Eve D'Ambra. 5. The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii. Rhetoric and the topology of Roman wall-painting, Katharina Lorenz. 6. Agamemnon's grief: on the limits of expression in Roman rhetoric and painting, Verity Platt. 7. Rhetoric and art in third century AD Rome, Barbara Borg. 8. Poems in stone: reading mythological sarcophagi through Statius' Consolations, Zahra Newby. 9. The funerary altar of Pedana and the rhetoric of unreachability, Caroline Vout. 10. Rational, passionate and appetitive: the psychology of rhetoric and the transformation of visual culture from non-Christian to Christian sarcophagi in the Roman World, Jas Elsner. 10. The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order, Michael Squire. Coda: the rhetoric of Roman painting within the history of culture: a global interpretation, Michel Meyer.

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