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Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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The study of colour has become familiar territory in anthropology,
linguistics, art history and archaeology. Classicists, however,
have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to form. By
drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists,
epic writers, historians and satirists, in this 2009 text, Mark
Bradley reinstates colour as an essential informative unit for the
classification and evaluation of the Roman world. He also
demonstrates that the questions of what colour was and how it
functioned - as well as how it could be misused and misunderstood -
were topics of intellectual debate in early imperial Rome.
Suggesting strategies for interpreting Roman expressions of colour
in Latin texts, Dr Bradley offers alternative approaches to
understanding the relationship between perception and knowledge in
Roman elite thought. In doing so, he highlights the fundamental
role that colour performed in the realms of communication and
information, and its intellectual contribution to contemporary
discussions of society, politics and morality.
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