Zahra Newby is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She is author of Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue (2005) and numerous articles on Philostratus and Lucian, Greek cultural identity in the imperial period, as well as on mythological sculpture and sarcophagi. She also co-edited the volume Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Greek myths, Roman lives 1. Art and power in the public sphere 2. Recreating myth in the Roman villa 3. Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings 4. Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house 5. From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm 6. The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation 7. Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
Introduction: Greek myths, Roman lives 1. Art and power in the public sphere 2. Recreating myth in the Roman villa 3. Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings 4. Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house 5. From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm 6. The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation 7. Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
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