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Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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, 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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