Visual power in ancient Greece and Rome : between art and social reality
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Visual power in ancient Greece and Rome : between art and social reality
(Sather classical lectures, v. 73)(The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature)
University of California Press, c2018
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Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hoelscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hoelscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations * vii
Periods of Greek and Roman History * xv
Acknowledgments * xvii
Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome * 1
1. Space, Action, and Images * 15
2. Time, Memory, and Images * 97
3. Person, Identity, and Images * 153
4. The Dignity of Reality * 206
5. Representation * 257
6. Decor * 304
Notes * 341
Illustration Credits * 389
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