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Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi
- Title
- Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi / edited by Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson.
- Publication
- Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2011.
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- Table of contents
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- Description
- viii, 446 p. : ill., plans; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29
- Uniform Title
- Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Jaś Elsner -- Before sarcophagi / Glenys Davies -- Habent sua fata : writing life histories of Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson -- Tragedy's forgotten beauty : the medieval return of Orestes / Francisco Prado-Vilar -- The Roman sarcophagus 'industry' : a reconsideration / Ben Russell -- Multimethod analyses of Roman sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome / Frances van Keuren, Donato Attanasio, John J. Herrmann, Jr., Norman Herz, L. Peter Gromet -- In the guise of gods and heroes : portrait heads on Roman mythological sarcophagi / Zahra Newby -- Man or woman? Cross-gendering and individuality on third century Roman sarcophagi / Stine Birk -- Myth and visual narrative in the second sophistic : a comparative approach : notes on an Attic Hippolytos sarcophagus in Agrigento / Björn C. Ewald -- Image in distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi / Katharina Lorenz -- Borrowed verse and broken narrative : agency, identity, and the (Bethesda) sarcophagus of Bassa / Dennis Trout -- Image and rhetoric in early Christian sarcophagi : reflections on Jesus' trial / Jaś Elsner -- 'Houses of the dead'? Columnar sarcophagi as 'micro-architecture' / Edmund Thomas.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-583
- ISBN
- 9783110202137 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 3110202131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010028071
- OCLC
- 647220075
- Title
- Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi / edited by Jaś Elsner and Janet Huskinson.
- Imprint
- Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2011.
- Series
- Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 29.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Added Author
- Elsner, Jaś.Huskinson, Janet.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-583