Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi

by: Elsner, J. Huskinson, J.

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Life, Death and Representation : Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi

Edited by: Jas Elsner and Janet Huskinson

Volume 29 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

About this book
This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Jaś Elsner
1. Before Sarcophagi

Glenys Davies
2. Habent sua fata: Writing life histories of Roman Sarcophagi

Janet Huskinson
3. Tragedy?s Forgotten Beauty: the Medieval Return of Orestes

Francisco Prado-Vilar
4. The Roman Sarcophagus ?Industry?: a Reconsideration

Ben Russell
5. Multimethod Analyses of Roman Sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome

Frances van Keuren, Donato Attanasio and John J. Herrmann
6. In the Guise of Gods and Heroes: Portrait Heads on Roman Mythological Sarcophagi

Zahra Newby
7. Man or Woman? Cross-gendering and Individuality on Third Century Roman Sarcophagi

Stine Birk
8. Myth and Visual Narrative in the Second Sophistic – a Comparative Approach: Notes on an Attic Hippolytos Sarcophagus in Agrigento

Björn C. Ewald
9. Image in Distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi

Katharina Lorenz
10. Borrowed Verse and Broken Narrative: Agency, Identity, and the (Bethesda) Sarcophagus of Bassa

Dennis Trout
11. Image and Rhetoric in Early Christian Sarcophagi: Reflections on Jesus? Trial

Jaś Elsner
12. ?Houses of the dead?? Columnar sarcophagi as ?micro-architecture?

Edmund Thomas
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Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi

by: Elsner, J. Huskinson, J.

• ISBN-13: 9783110482317 / 978-3-11-048231-7
• ISBN-03: 3110482312 / 3-11-048231-2
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2016

Price: 26,45 EURO

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