Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation

Graeme Miles

• Hardcover | Engels | Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man summation of cont... Lees meer

The Neronian Grotesque

Scott Weiss

• Hardcover | Engels | Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explo... Lees meer

Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature

Karel Thein

• Hardcover | Engels | Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers th... Lees meer

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

Sean V Leatherbury

• Hardcover | Engels | Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300-800... Lees meer

The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens

• Hardcover | Engels | Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp 'justice' or 'war' o... Lees meer

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity

Sean V Leatherbury

• Paperback | Engels | Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300-800... Lees meer