Format:
Online-Ressource ( 582 S. )
,
ill. (some col.).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789004256934
,
9789004255388
,
9004255389
Series Statement:
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae Volume 122
Content:
"These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity"--Back cover
Note:
"The essays, nine of which published previously over a span of a dozen years, have been corrected, updated, and modified for this setting. The other articles have been given as lectures ... but have not so far seen a final printed form"--P. vii. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-459) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004255388
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise: Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013 ISBN 9789004255388
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004256934
