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.

Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. its lava preserved not only the Pompeii of that time but a palimpsest of the city's history, visible traces of the different societies of Pompeii's past. Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture, disentangles these tantalizing traces to show us the urban images that marked Pompeii's development from country town to Roman imperial city. Exploring Pompeii's public buildings, its streets and gathering places, we witness the impact of religious changes, the renovation of theaters and expansion of athletic facilities, and the influence of elite families on the city's appearance. Through these stages, Zanker adeptly conjures a sense of the political and social meanings in urban planning and public architecture. The private houses of Pompeii prove equally eloquent, their layout, decor, and architectural detail speaking volumes about the life, taste, and desires of their owners. At home or in public, at work or at ease, these Pompeians and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering. A provocative and original reading of material culture, his work is an incomparable introduction to urban life in antiquity.

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.

1 B. Eschenburg, Spatromantik und Realismus (Bayer. Staatsgemaldesamml. Neue Pinakothek, Munchen), Munchen 1984, 219-221. Zur Glyptothek vgl. K. Vierneisel- G. Leinz (Hrsg.), Glyptothek Munchen 1830-1980 (Ausstellungskatalog Munchen 1980). 2 P. Veyne, Le Pain et le Cirque. Sociologie historique d'un pluralisme politique (Paris 1976); deutsch gekurzt: Brot und Spiele (Munchen 1994 ). 3 H. Kloft, Liberalitas Principis. Herkunft und Bedeutung. Studien zur Principatsideologie (Koeln/Wien 1970); ders. Freigebigkeit und Finanzen, der soziale und finanzielle Aspekt der augusteischen Liberalitas, in: G. Binder (Hrsg.), Saeculum Augustum I (Darmstadt 1987) 361-388; C.E. Manning, Liberalitas. The Decline and Rehabilitation of a Virtue, Greece and Rome 32,1, 1985, 73-83; D.E. Strang, The administration of public building in Rome during the late republic and early empire, Bulletin Institute of Classical Studies XV, 1968, 97. 4 Einen UEberblick uber die Bautatigkeit der Kaiser und uber das wenige, was wir uber die ent- sprechende Organisation wissen, findet man jetzt in dem uberaus nutzlichen Kompendium von F. Kalb, Rom. Die Geschichte der Stadt in der Antike (Munchen 1995). 5 D. Kienast, Augustus (Darmstadt 1982) 336 ff.; M. Horster, Bauinschriften roemischer Kaiser: Untersuchungen zur Bautatigkeit in den Stadten des westlichen Imperium Romanum wahrend des Principats (bisher ungedruckte Diss. Koeln 1965). Durch die Vermittlung von Werner Eck konnte ich diese wertvolle Quellensammlung einsehen.