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Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture - Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 (Paperback)
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Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture - Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 (Paperback)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman
art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and
reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek
culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new
ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of
Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public,
domestic and funerary contexts. It argues that myths, in addition
to functioning as signifiers of a patron's education or paideia,
played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The
changing use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art
in particular reveals an important shift in Roman values and senses
of identity across the period of the first two centuries AD, and in
the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values.
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