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The Mask of Socrates - The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The Mask of Socrates - The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 59
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This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective
on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture
from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a
variety of source materials, including Greco-Roman literature,
historiography, and philosophy, coupled with artistic renderings,
Paul Zanker forges the first comprehensive history of the visual
representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. He takes the
reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the
figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and
civic dignitaries. Through his interpretations of the postures,
gestures, facial expressions, and stylistic changes of particular
pieces, we come to know these great poets and philosophers through
all of their various personas-the prophetic wise man, the virtuous
democratic citizen, or the self-absorbed bon vivant. Zanker's
analysis of how the iconography of influential thinkers and writers
changed demonstrates the rise and fall of trends and the movement
of schools of thought and belief, each successively embodying the
most valued characteristics of the period and culture. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1995.
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