This book explores the imaginative processes at work in visual and verbal artefacts of Classical Athens. A fascinating reasssessment of imagination in this period, it is of interest to those working on ancient philosophies of mind and ancient Gr...Loe edasi...
During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across textual and visual media in an integrated way.Weiss analysis all...Loe edasi...
This book explores the imaginative processes at work in visual and verbal artefacts of Classical Athens. A fascinating reasssessment of imagination in this period, it is of interest to those working on ancient philosophies of mind and ancient Gr...Loe edasi...
This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first detailed study of a large family of ancient ecphrastic shields, often studi...Loe edasi...
During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across textual and visual media in an integrated way.Weiss analysis all...Loe edasi...
This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens, building a diverse picture of culturally mediated thought in this period, prior to the development of explicit theories of the imagination in the centuries af...Loe edasi...
This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first detailed study of a large family of ancient ecphrastic shields, often studied separately, b...Loe edasi...
Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces...Loe edasi...
The classical Greek symposion provided a unique social opportunity for aristocratic, male elites to gather together in small groups, to drink, sing, recite poetry and discuss a range of topics within a relaxed atmosphere. Focusing on the functions th...Loe edasi...
Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly individual re-inventor of the traditions in which...Loe edasi...
Challenging the idea that late antique inscriptions in religious contexts were only vehicles for the communication of information or simple prayers for divine help, this book considers these texts as verbal and visual documents that were both read an...Loe edasi...
Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly individual re-inventor of the traditions in which...Loe edasi...
