Encounters With Greek Art - Image, Text, Invention of Identities in Rome Roman Italy, 146 Bce

Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE.

List of contents

Introduction: Looking Cultured; Part I: Ekphrasis and Empire; 1. Touring Monuments 1: Apollo Palatinus; 2. Touring Monuments 2: Hercules Musarum; 3. Consuming Miniatures; Part II: Imagetexts and Identities; 4. Scenes for Hellenes: Greek Imagetexts from Rome and Roman Italy; 5. Chatting in Latin: Latin Imagotextual Frescoes of Roman Italy; Envoi.

About the author

Carolyn MacDonald is an associate professor of Classics at the University of New Brunswick (Canada). She has published on the cultural politics of Greek and Latin ekphrasis, and is co-editor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (2018).

Summary

Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn MacDonald
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032894539
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289453-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE