Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality
    Unavailable
    Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality
    Unavailable
    Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality
    Ebook742 pages6 hours

    Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality

    By Tonio Hölscher

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    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 Hölscher 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, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateJun 22, 2018
    ISBN9780520967885
    Unavailable
    Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality
    Author

    Tonio Hölscher

    Tonio Hölscher is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a visiting lecturer in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. His main publications address political monuments, social imagery and the use of images, public architecture, and urbanism in ancient Greece and Rome.

    Related to Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

    Titles in the series (40)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Ancient History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Dionysian Ecstasy

      Mar 1, 2020

      Dionysian Ecstasy
      15 min read

    • Article

      Fun And Games

      Aug 5, 2021

      Fun And Games
      3 min read

    • Article

      Theme The Price Of Remembrance

      Aug 4, 2023

      The series of tombs along the Appian Way is one of the most representative examples of how grave monuments contribute to conveying the memory of both famous and lesser-known individuals. In the Republic, the area became typically associated with the

      8 min read

    • Article

      Classical Corner

      Jan 28, 2021

      Classical Corner
      5 min read

    • Article

      Room To Imagine

      Apr 1, 2023

      Room To Imagine
      6 min read

    • Article

      Gods And Monsters

      Feb 28, 2024

      Gods And Monsters
      14 min read

    • Article

      Wonder lust

      Jan 18, 2024

      Wonder lust
      9 min read

    • Article

      Making A Point

      Nov 11, 2020

      Making A Point
      5 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: US Should Build A Memorial 'Plague Column' For COVID-19, But Where? Here's An Idea

      May 8, 2020

      Plague columns don't exist in the United States. The nation was founded too late, after the 17th and early 18th century European heyday of memorials built to mark the end of a blistering contagion. An epidemic's brutal cost in human lives and its myr

      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Reviews

      Oct 6, 2023

      The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy Edited by Sitta von Redenl ISBN: 978-1108404846 Cambridge University Press (2022) - £29.99 www.cambridge.org The study of the ancient Greek economy occupies an unusual place in modern scholarship.

      5 min read

    • Article

      History’s Greatest Mysteries

      May 14, 2020

      History’s Greatest Mysteries
      36 min read

    • Article

      Snapshots Of Propaganda

      Feb 14, 2022

      THE MEANING BEHIND ROMAN CAMEO IMAGERY Originating initially as engraved shells, eggs, and soft stones, cameos rose to prominence under the Hellenistic monarchies of the East (after the adoption of semi-precious stones). They reached the zenith of th

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Temple Of Mars Ultor

      Apr 20, 2021

      In the aftermath of the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC, his young heir swore to hunt down each and every assassin and bring them to justice. Before the first battle at Philippi in Greece in 42 BC, Octavian (who inherited the name

      3 min read

    • Article

      Ancient Greeks

      Sep 21, 2023

      Ancient Greeks
      5 min read

    • Article

      Readings: A Day At The Theatre

      Jan 23, 2023

      By Graham Ley University of Chicago Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0226477619 Greek theatre is a very broad subject with a great many facets, from architecture to literature and language. In this Short Introduction, Ley provides a comprehensive overview of th

      2 min read

    • Article

      Style Setters

      Aug 5, 2021

      The Archaic period in Greek history ran from the eighth century BC until the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC. In artistic and cultural terms, the most significant advance during this time was the introduction of monumental sculpture, prin

      2 min read

    • Article

      Art History

      Jan 22, 2021

      Art History
      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Reviews

      Dec 14, 2021

      TWELVE CAESARS: Images of power from the ancient world to the modern By Mary Beard ISBN: 978-0691222363 Princeton University Press (2021) – $35.00 www.press.princeton.edu The Caesars of Rome continue to beguile us. What is perplexing is why the first

      5 min read

    • Article

      Roaming Romans

      Feb 7, 2024

      Legion: Life in the Roman Army By Richard Abdy British Museum Press £45 The British Museum has been having a bit of a torrid time of late. To its rescue and even perhaps rehabilitation (something BP’s £50m subvention deal will not achieve) comes its

      3 min read

    • Article

      Real History Of The Gladiators

      Dec 30, 2021

      Real History Of The Gladiators
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

      Jul 16, 2020

      Founded in c.331 BCE by Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria in northern Egypt was home to some of the intellectual centres of the ancient world. It was well known for its famous Great Library, which was built in c.295 BCE to collect all of th

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Athenian revolution

      Aug 11, 2021

      The Athenian revolution
      7 min read

    • Article

      Germanicus In Egypt

      Jan 23, 2023

      Germanicus In Egypt
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Founder’s Tomb

      Feb 3, 2020

      IN HIS NATURAL HISTORY, a first-century A.D. book that purports to contain everything then known about the world, the Roman historian Pliny the Elder briefly describes the Decapolis, a region at the Roman Empire’s eastern edge. He notes that, as its

      6 min read

    Reviews for Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words