Author : Jens Daehner
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892368822
At the beginning of the 18th century, three life-sized marble statues of women were found near Portici on the Bay of Naples. This volume presents the comprehensive story of these famous statues.
Author : Jennifer Trimble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521825156
This book explains why Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employed the same body forms.
Author : Jens Daehner
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
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Author : Sheila Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521764505
The first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE.
Author : Victoria C. Gardner Coates
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368723
'Antiquity Recovered' presents 13 diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations. They range in subject from a reassessment of the contents of the library at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri, to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in classic films.
Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1914535235
The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual evidence from vase-painting and sculpture is used extensively alongside Greek literature to reconstruct how women of the Greek world were perceived, and also, in important ways, how they lived.
Author : Joseph Jay Deiss
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 1989-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780892361649
A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled. This vivid re-creation of life in Pompeii's sister city includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled. Library Journal called the first edition "a fascinating book. The daily life of the Romans, rich and poor, has been wonderfully re-created." And the New York Times pronounced it "exciting reading . . . a spirited guide."
Author : Alison E. Cooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134624565
The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, the neighbouring town also buried in the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook allows readers to form a richer and more diverse picture of urban life on the Bay of Naples. Focusing upon inscriptions and ancient texts, it translates and sets into context a representative sample of the huge range of source material uncovered in these towns. From the labels on wine jars to scribbled insults, and from advertisements for gladiatorial contests to love poetry, the individual chapters explore the early history of Pompeii and Herculaneum, their destruction, leisure pursuits, politics, commerce, religion, the family and society. Information about Pompeii and Herculaneum from authors based in Rome is included, but the great majority of sources come from the cities themselves, written by their ordinary inhabitants – men and women, citizens and slaves. Encorporating the latest research and finds from the two cities and enhanced with more photographs, maps, and plans, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook offers an invaluable resource for anyone studying or visiting the sites.
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1847650643
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.
Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199987436
"This book is published to accompany the exhibition at the British Museum from 28 March to 29 September 2013"--T.p. verso.
