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The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power

The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power

Herbert, S.
Eliav, Y. Z.
Friedland, E. a.

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Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, Book 9

Art HistoryAncient Rome

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ISBN10: 9042920041
ISBN13: 9789042920040
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Jul 29 2008
Pages: 770
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Public sculptures were the mass media of the Roman world. They populated urban centers throughout the empire, serving as a plastic language that communicated political, religious, and social messages. This book brings together twenty-eight experts who otherwise rarely convene: text-based scholars of the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian realms from the fields of classics, history, and religion and specialists in the artistic traditions of Greece and Rome as well as art historians and archaeologists. Utilizing the full spectrum of ancient sources, the book examines the multiple, at times even contradictory, meanings and functions that statues served within the complex world of the Roman Near East. Moreover, it situates the discussion of sculpture in the broader context of antiquity in order to reevaluate long-held scholarly consensuses on such ideas as the essence of Hellenism (the culture that emerged from the encounter of Greco-Romans with the Near East) and the everlasting conflict among paganism, Christianity, and Judaism.

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