(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780714132006)
To the ancient Greeks the human body in sculpture was both an object of sensory delight and an expression of an intelligent mind. From the abstract simplicity of prehistoric Cycladic figurines to later realism, sculptors gave form to thought in a ri...Loe edasi...
Octavia Minor (c. 69--11 BCE) was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, the fourth wife of his ally and subsequent rival Mark Antony, and ancestor of the emperors Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Such a genealogy positions her squarely a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009295086)
What was race in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead White men? This book explores the different manifestations of race across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infu...Loe edasi...
What was race in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead White men? This book explores the different manifestations of race across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197815076)
The freestanding arch is one of Roman architectures most innovative and distinctive structures, yet little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome. The Roman Arch examines the formative period of frees...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197635353)
Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one of the most important urban centers in the Mediterranean world during the last decades of the Roman Republic and the Early and High Empi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009407137)
Worlds fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture helped create immersive environments at the worlds fairs in Chicago, Nashville, Omaha, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Through t...Loe edasi...
Worlds fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture helped create immersive environments at the worlds fairs in Chicago, Nashville, Omaha, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Through t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197518939)
Octavia: The Life of a Roman Matron Between Antony and Augustus explores Octavias significant role during the transition from the Roman Republic to the Empire. By following Octavias life, it narrates this turbulent period of Roman history...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198912804)
Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology proposes a rethinking of the way in which objects, styles, concepts, and people relate in archaeological interpretation, using Egyptian and Egyptian-styled objects from the houses of Roman Pompeii as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192846587)
Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Verity J. Platt traces the concept of the seal-impression (typos) as a model for the making and reproduction of images throu...Loe edasi...
This is the first historical study using Han tombs as expression carriers of religious beliefs to reconstruct the history of religious Daoism of the Han empire....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009505765)
Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world, and demonstrates the ubiquity, fluidity, and powe...Loe edasi...
The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient cultures records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts...Loe edasi...
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography offers a comprehensive overview of visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions of iconographic analysis and visual semiotics th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199383511)
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different enviro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199383535)
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different enviro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009502122)
In The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World, Patricia Eunji Kim examines the visual and material cultures of Hellenistic queens, the royal and dynastic women who served as subjects and patrons of art. Exploring evidence in the interconnected eas...Loe edasi...
Thomas J. Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198912040)
The first comprehensive study of Romes relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in Turkey) from the late third century BC to the fourth century AD across multiple cultural spheres (art and architecture, history and poli...Loe edasi...
Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to...Loe edasi...
A wide-ranging synthesis of decades worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heart of We...Loe edasi...
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consci...Loe edasi...
In this book, Dominus legem dat, labeled the most debated motif in early Christian art, is dealt with in all its different contexts, particularly Roman sarcophagi, where it most often occurs. In light of concurrent Roman funerary art, it offers a ne...Loe edasi...
The monograph is devoted to the material culture of the Early Bronze Age of The Mil-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. At the same time, the settlements and grave monuments in these areas and the natural geographical conditions of this land were studied...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199383559)
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. The Oxford History of the Arch...Loe edasi...
From the death of Julius Caesar to Nero, The Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire is an outstanding celebration of classical antiquity. Ranging from farming to architecture, Romes Catacombs to Hadrians Wall, and from assassinations to the Barbarian inva...Loe edasi...
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece is a fascinating reference work, spanning both political history, society, war, culture, philosophy and mythology ranging from the founding of the Minoan civilization in the 3rd millennium BCE to the heights of the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the “fit” American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. In this historical moment, 19th-c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009390026)
Examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in a wide range of specific locations, such as roads, gardens, neighbourhoods, hydraulic infrastructures, funerary p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192857552)
The persistent desire to animate inanimate objects has been a recurring theme in European culture dating back to ancient Greek and Roman times. Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish, for the first time, the signifi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780714132006)
To the ancient Greeks the human body in sculpture was both an object of sensory delight and an expression of an intelligent mind. From the abstract simplicity of prehistoric Cycladic figurines to later realism, sculptors gave form to thought in a ri...Loe edasi...
Octavia Minor (c. 69--11 BCE) was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, the fourth wife of his ally and subsequent rival Mark Antony, and ancestor of the emperors Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Such a genealogy positions her squarely a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009295086)
What was race in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead White men? This book explores the different manifestations of race across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infu...Loe edasi...
What was race in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead White men? This book explores the different manifestations of race across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infu...Loe edasi...
This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich and intricate history of Chinese aesthetics.Through the lens of renowned artist Mo Hen, this book explores themes of simplicity, natural beauty, and the pass...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Warren Moon Series in Art and Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299355203)
Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedicated to him in more than two decades, new ev...Loe edasi...
In this book, Andrew R. Guffey argues that part of the confusion surrounding the book of Revelation stems from the fact it was first and foremost a work to be seen, but that few interpreters address the visuality of the book....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197815076)
The freestanding arch is one of Roman architectures most innovative and distinctive structures, yet little attention has been paid to the first monuments constructed in the city of Rome. The Roman Arch examines the formative period of frees...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197635353)
Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one of the most important urban centers in the Mediterranean world during the last decades of the Roman Republic and the Early and High Empi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009407137)
Worlds fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture helped create immersive environments at the worlds fairs in Chicago, Nashville, Omaha, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Through t...Loe edasi...
Worlds fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture helped create immersive environments at the worlds fairs in Chicago, Nashville, Omaha, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Through t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197518939)
Octavia: The Life of a Roman Matron Between Antony and Augustus explores Octavias significant role during the transition from the Roman Republic to the Empire. By following Octavias life, it narrates this turbulent period of Roman history...Loe edasi...
This volume explores how precious materials shaped power, identity and cultural exchange in the ancient world from the 7th century BC to early Roman times. Growing out of the British Museum special exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, it b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198912804)
Style and Assemblage in Roman Archaeology proposes a rethinking of the way in which objects, styles, concepts, and people relate in archaeological interpretation, using Egyptian and Egyptian-styled objects from the houses of Roman Pompeii as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192846587)
Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Verity J. Platt traces the concept of the seal-impression (typos) as a model for the making and reproduction of images throu...Loe edasi...
This is the first historical study using Han tombs as expression carriers of religious beliefs to reconstruct the history of religious Daoism of the Han empire....Loe edasi...
William Aylward, Jacques des Courtils, Bonna D. Wescoat
Sari: The Warren Moon Series in Art and Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299350109)
During the Hellenistic period, the North Aegean Sea was a dynamic and diverse area, linked by robust trading networks and sometimes precarious political allegiances. The islands of Thasos, Samothrace, and Lesbos in particular played crucial roles in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009505765)
Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world, and demonstrates the ubiquity, fluidity, and powe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Baylor University Press, ISBN-13: 9781481321631)
In the fourth and fifth centuries CE, Christian artistry began to flourish, as elite patrons sponsored decorative initiatives for basilica churches throughout the Mediterranean basin. But what about the first three centuries? Living prior to the C...Loe edasi...
This festschrift celebrates John Mitchells 80th birthday, showcasing his remarkable breadth as a polymath art historian. From Anglo-Saxon bibles to Roman mosaics and medieval knick-knacks, his infectious curiosity and deep insight defy academic cate...Loe edasi...
The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient cultures records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts...Loe edasi...
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography offers a comprehensive overview of visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions of iconographic analysis and visual semiotics th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199383511)
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different enviro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199383535)
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different enviro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009502122)
In The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World, Patricia Eunji Kim examines the visual and material cultures of Hellenistic queens, the royal and dynastic women who served as subjects and patrons of art. Exploring evidence in the interconnected eas...Loe edasi...
Thomas J. Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198912040)
The first comprehensive study of Romes relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in Turkey) from the late third century BC to the fourth century AD across multiple cultural spheres (art and architecture, history and poli...Loe edasi...
Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to...Loe edasi...
