Roman Cult Images - The Lives and Worship of Idols From the Iron Age to Late Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Philip Kiernan is Associate Professor of Art History at Kennesaw State University, Georgia. He is the author of Miniature Votive Offerings (2009) and has also published numerous articles on Roman art, artefacts, numismatics, and religion. His archaeological excavations have included a Hellenistic-Roman market building at Alexandria Troas, a Bronze-Iron Age tumulus at Haßloch, and most recently a Romano-Celtic temple at Wareswald. Klappentext A biography of how cult images functioned in Roman temples. It explores their creation, use, and eventual destruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The birth of cult images: early Rome and the Iron Age; 2. The birth of cult images: continuity and innovation in the Imperial Period; 3. Idols at home; 4. Idols in action; 5. The end of idols.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Kiernan, Philip (Kennesaw State University Kiernan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108487344
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48734-4
• No. of pages: 377
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ancient World, History of Architecture, Western Europe, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, British Isles, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Western Continental Europe