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Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with
the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve.
The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and
their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with
contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion,
thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology,
and political science. The book brings together consideration of
emotions, memory and material agency to inform a deeper
understanding of the specific roles played by objects in funerary
contexts across historical and contemporary societies.
Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with
the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve.
The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and
their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with
contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion,
thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology,
and political science. The book brings together consideration of
emotions, memory and material agency to inform a deeper
understanding of the specific roles played by objects in funerary
contexts across historical and contemporary societies.
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.
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.
The ancient visual environment was packed with instances where
words and images appeared side by side: statues with dedicatory
inscriptions, labels on paintings or mosaics, or complex
juxtapositions of images and engraved texts on funerary monuments.
In the past these elements have often been divorced from one
another and studied in isolation. In this volume art historians and
epigraphers have come together to look at the complex ways in which
images and words interacted with one another, illustrating,
explaining or reinterpreting each other or, conversely, making
competing demands upon the viewer. Their essays range widely in
their focus from archaic Greek pottery through Hellenistic
honorific statues and Pompeian wall-paintings to Late Roman
mosaics. The insights that emerge contribute to our wider picture
of the relationships between art and text in the ancient world, as
well as illuminating the complexity and variety in ancient material
culture.
The athletic competitions that took place during festivals like
that at Olympia, or within the confines of city gymnasia, were a
key feature of life in ancient Greece. From the commemoration of
victorious athletes in poetry or sculpture to the archaeological
remains of baths, gymnasia and stadia, surviving evidence offers
plentiful testimony to the importance of athletic activity in Greek
culture, and its survival well into the Roman period. This book
offers an introduction to the many forms that athletics took in the
ancient world, and to the sources of evidence by which we can study
it. As well as looking at the role of athletics in archaic and
classical Greece, it also covers the less-explored periods of the
Hellenistic and Roman worlds. The many different aspects of
athletics will also be considered - not only the well-known
contests of athletic festivals such as the Olympic Games, but also
the place of athletic training within civic education and military
training, and its integration into the bathing culture of the Roman
world.
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