Emily Clifford

Gebundenes Buch

Figuring Death in Classical Athens

Visual and Literary Explorations

Beschreibung

Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death. How did objects and texts generate thinking about what death is and might be like?

Autor

Emily Clifford is Assistant Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Warwick. From 2020 to 2024 she was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. She works on art and literature from the Graeco-Roman world with interest in the generative role played by cultural artefacts in processes of thought and imagination. Her publications in The Journal of Roman Studies (2023) and with Routledge, The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens (2024, as co-editor), focus respectively on imperial Rome and Classical Athens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 185mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780198947905
• ISBN-10: 0198947909
• Artikelnr.: 73520001