Facing the Gods - Epiphany Representation in Graeco Roman Art, Literature Religion

Informationen zum Autor Verity Platt is Associate Professor in the Departments of Classics and Art History at Cornell University, New York, having previously taught at the University of Exeter and the University of Chicago. Her research interests include attitudes to the sacred image in antiquity, ancient theories of representation, the relationship between image and text, and Roman wall-painting and funerary art. This is her first book. Klappentext Explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art! but also in literature! histories and inscriptions. Zusammenfassung This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art! but also in literature! histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period through the Hellenistic world and into the Roman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Framing epiphany in art and text; 2. Material epiphany: encountering the divine in cult images; 3. Epiphany and authority in Hellenistic Greece; 4. The poetics of epiphany in Hellenistic epigram; Part II: 5. Virtual visions: piety and paideia in Second Sophistic literature; 6. Dream visions and cult images in Second Sophistic literature; 7. The apologetics of representation in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana; Part III: 8. Dying to see: epiphanic sarcophagi from Imperial Rome.

Product details

• Authors: Verity Platt, Verity (Associate Professor of Classics and Platt, Platt Verity
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521861717
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86171-7
• No. of pages: 502
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, RELIGION / Ancient, Interdisciplinary studies, Ancient History, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies