Umfang:
Online-Ressource
Ausgabe:
eScholarship editions
ISBN:
0520085183
Inhalt:
In his description of a recently unearthed sarcophagus, the great sixteenth-century antiquarian Pirro Ligorio speculated about the significance of its imagery. The sculpted relief represented the death of Adonis, and Ligorio reasoned that it commemorated one who not only had shown undaunted courage in the face of dangers but had indeed done so in the prime of youth, only to be struck down by a sudden, violent death
Anmerkung:
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Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Römisches Reich
;
Sarkophag
;
Mythos
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