Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome

Klappentext This 2009 text explores the definition and function of colour in Rome during the early Empire. Zusammenfassung Explores how ancient Romans categorised! organised and described colours! and outlines the principal differences and similarities between ancient and modern concepts of colour. By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers! elegists! epic writers! historians and satirists! this text explores the definition and function of colour in Rome during the early Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The rainbow; 2. Lucretius and the philosophy of color; 3. Pliny the Elder and the unnatural history of color; 4. Color and rhetoric; 5. The natural body; 6. The unnatural body; 7. Purple; Conclusion: colours triumphant; Envoi: Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 2.26.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Bradley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521110426
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11042-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity