Homer in Stone - The Tabulae Iliacae in Their Roman Context

"The Tabulae Iliacae are a group of carved stone plaques created in the context of early Imperial Rome that use miniature images and text to retell stories from Greek myth and history - chief among them Homer's Iliad and the fall of Troy. In this book, Professor Petrain moves beyond the narrow focus on the literary and iconographic sources of the Tabulae that has characterized earlier scholarship. Drawing on ancient and modern theories of narrative, he explores instead how the tablets transfer the Troy saga across both medium and culture as they create a system of visual storytelling that relies on the values and viewing habits of Roman viewers. The book comprehensively situates the tablets in the urban fabric of Augustan Rome. New photographs of the tablets, together with re-editions and translations of key inscriptions, offer a new, clearer view of these remarkable documents of the Roman appropriation of Greek epic"--

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• Authors: David Petrain, David (Vanderbilt University Petrain, Petrain David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107029811
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02981-1
• No. of pages: 273
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient religions & mythologies, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology