The Tabulae Iliacae are a group of carved stone plaques created in
the context of early Imperial Rome that use miniature images and
text to retell stories from Greek myth and history - chief among
them Homer's Iliad and the fall of Troy. In this book, Professor
Petrain moves beyond the narrow focus on the literary and
iconographic sources of the Tabulae that has characterized earlier
scholarship. Drawing on ancient and modern theories of narrative,
he explores instead how the tablets transfer the Troy saga across
both medium and culture as they create a system of visual
storytelling that relies on the values and viewing habits of Roman
viewers. The book comprehensively situates the tablets in the urban
fabric of Augustan Rome. New photographs of the tablets, together
with re-editions and translations of key inscriptions, offer a new,
clearer view of these remarkable documents of the Roman
appropriation of Greek epic.
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