Art and rhetoric in Roman culture
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...
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2014
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- Preface Michel Meyer Introduction Jaś Elsner Part I. 1 2 3 4 Architecture and Public Space On the sublime in architecture Sublime histories, exceptional viewers: Trajan's Column and its visibility Corpore enormi: the rhetoric of physical appearance in Suetonius and imperial portrait statuary Beauty and the Roman female portrait Edmund Thomas Francesco de Angelis Jennifer Trimble Eve D'Ambra Part II. 5 6 The Domestic Realm The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii: rhetoric and the topology of Roman wall-painting Agamemnon's grief: on the limits of expression in Roman rhetoric and painting Katharina Lorenz Verity Platt Part III. 7 8 9 10 The Funerary Rhetoric and art in third-century AD Rome Poems in stone: reading mythological sarcophagi through Statius' Consolations The funerary altar of Pedana and the rhetoric of unreachability Rational, passionate and appetitive: the psychology of rhetoric and the transformation of visual culture from non-Christian to Christian sarcophagi in the Roman world Barbara Borg Zahra Newby Caroline Vout Jaś Elsner Part IV. 11 12 Rhetoric and the Visual The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order Coda: the rhetoric of Roman painting within the history of culture: a global interpretation Michael Squire Michel Meyer