Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 304 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511732317
Content:
Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples and discussions drawn from visual material. This book mines this rich seam of theoretical analysis from within Roman culture to present an internalist model for some aspects of how the Romans understood, made and appreciated their art. The understanding of public monuments like the Arch of Titus or Trajan's Column or of imperial statuary, domestic wall painting, funerary altars and sarcophagi, as well as of intimate items like children's dolls, is greatly enriched by being placed in relevant rhetorical contexts created by the Roman world
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Preface
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Introduction
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Part I. Architecture and Public Space: 1. On the sublime in architecture
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Part II. The Domestic Realm: 5. The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii: rhetoric and the topology of Roman wall-painting
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Part III. The Funerary: 7. Rhetoric and art in third-century AD Rome
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Part IV. Rhetoric and the Visual: 11. The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107000711
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107000711
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511732317
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