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Depicting the Dead : Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits
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Depicting the Dead : Self-Representation and Commemoration on Roman Sarcophagi with Portraits / Stine Birk
ISBN
9788771244168
9788771240184
Publication
Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag, [2013]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2013]
Physical Description
1 online resource (333 pages): illustrations
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Summary
Explores how to read Roman sarcophagi, starting from those adorned with portraits and placing them within a social context; investigates gender values and childhood as reflected in the visual language of sarcophagus reliefs and shows how standardised iconography could be used to construct personal and social memory
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity Ser. ; v. 11
Contents
Introduction: Negotiating identity on sarcophagi
Images for contemplation
Exempla Virtutis: Portraits and self-representation on sarcophagi
Visualising gender
Filiae Innocentissimae, Filio Dulcissimo: Commemorating children
Retrospect
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