The Column of Antoninus Pius

The Column of Antoninus Pius
Author: Lise Vogel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1973
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780674143258

Shortly after the death in 161 of Antoninus Pius, his sons dedicated a column to him as a funerary monument. The form of the column in general and the reliefs on the pedestal in particular raise problems central to the understanding of Roman art. In this first thorough study, illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, Lise Vogel restores the column to its rightful place as one of the major monuments of Roman art. In addition, she re-evaluates the meaning of the column of Antoninus Pius in the context of the development of second century Roman imperial sculpture.

The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt

The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt
Author: Christina Riggs
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2006-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780191534874

This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the information it provides about individual works of art, supported by catalogue entries, the study explores fundamental questions such as how artists combine the iconographies and representational forms of different visual traditions, and why two distinct visual traditions were employed in Roman Egypt.

Son of God

Son of God
Author: Garrick V. Allen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-02-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1646020081

In antiquity, “son of god”—meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will—was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their divinely appointed status. But this title was also used by early Christians to speak about Jesus, borrowing the idiom from Israelite and early Jewish discourses on monarchy. This interdisciplinary volume explores what it means to be God’s son(s) in ancient Jewish and early Christian literature. Through close readings of relevant texts from multiple ancient corpora, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman texts and inscriptions, early Christian and Islamic texts, and apocalyptic literature, the chapters in this volume engage a range of issues including messianism, deification, eschatological figures, Jesus, interreligious polemics, and the Roman and Jewish backgrounds of early Christianity and the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The essays in this collection demonstrate that divine sonship is an ideal prism through which to better understand the deep interrelationship of ancient religions and their politics of kingship and divinity. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Richard Bauckham, Max Botner, George J. Brooke, Jan Joosten, Menahem Kister, Reinhard Kratz, Mateusz Kusio, Michael A. Lyons, Matthew V. Novenson, Michael Peppard, Sarah Whittle, and N. T. Wright.

Rome

Rome
Author: Amanda Claridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0199546835

The ultimate guide to all the important archaeological sites in the city of Rome from the period 800 BC to AD 600, with over 200 site maps, plans, and photographs.

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome
Author: Thomas Henry Dyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1864
Genre: Rome
ISBN:

Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation

Ancient Mythological Images and their Interpretation
Author: Katharina Lorenz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2016-08-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1316720497

When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus - enables Katharina Lorenz to demonstrate how theoretical approaches to images (specifically, iconology, semiotics, and image studies) impact the meanings we elicit from Greek and Roman art. A guide to Classical images of myth, and also a critical history of Classical archaeology's attempts to give meaning to pictures, this book establishes a dialogue with the wider field of art history and proposes a new framework for the study of ancient visual culture. It will be essential reading not just for students of classical art history and archaeology, but for anyone interested in the possibilities - and the history - of studying visual culture.

Roman Architecture and Urbanism

Roman Architecture and Urbanism
Author: Fikret K. Yegül
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 915
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture, Roman
ISBN: 0521470714

With 835 illustrations including numerous new plans and drawings as well as digital renderings.