Bettina Bergmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1229004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettina Bergmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergmann |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMANN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Museum Review: Final Hours: Victims of Vesuvius and Their Possessions
Pliny family
Pliny the elder
Houses of cards
We have reached an important moment in the study of the Roman house. The past 20 years have been extremely active, with scholars approaching domestic space down different disciplinary and methodological avenues. Since the important essay on Campanian houses by A. Wallace-Hadrill in 1988, new excavations and scores of books and articles have changed the picture of Pompeii and, with it, that of the Roman house. Theoretical archaeologists have taken…
The Art of Ancient Spectacle
Festivals, ceremonies, rituals, and other displays provide powerful ways to create and express a collective identity. This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts. The contributors to the volume consider how participation and spectatorship in diverse public activities influenced perceptions of what it meant to be Greek or Roman. And they examine the essential roles of …
Private Lives, Imperial Virtues: The Frieze of the Forum Transitorium in Rome
The depiction of the myth of Arachne, a woman punished for defiantly challenging Minerva to a weaving contest, is a subject without parallel for the frieze of a state monument such as Rome's Forum Transitorium, built by Domitian in the first century A.D. In this new interpretation of the frieze, Eve D'Ambra examines how art depicting mythological themes served as an instrument of social policy in the Roman Empire. She proposes that the portrayal …
The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome . By Eleanor Winsor Leach
Private Lives, Imperial Virtues: The Frieze of the Forum Transitorium in Rome
The depiction of the myth of Arachne, a woman punished for defiantly challenging Minerva to a weaving contest, is a subject without parallel for the frieze of a state monument such as Rome's Forum Transitorium, built by Domitian in the first century A.D. In this new interpretation of the frieze, Eve D'Ambra examines how art depicting mythological themes served as an instrument of social policy in the Roman Empire. She proposes that the portrayal …
Museum Review: Final Hours: Victims of Vesuvius and Their Possessions
The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome . By Eleanor Winsor Leach
Private Lives, Imperial Virtues: The Frieze of the Forum Transitorium in Rome
The depiction of the myth of Arachne, a woman punished for defiantly challenging Minerva to a weaving contest, is a subject without parallel for the frieze of a state monument such as Rome's Forum Transitorium, built by Domitian in the first century A.D. In this new interpretation of the frieze, Eve D'Ambra examines how art depicting mythological themes served as an instrument of social policy in the Roman Empire. She proposes that the portrayal …
Houses of cards
We have reached an important moment in the study of the Roman house. The past 20 years have been extremely active, with scholars approaching domestic space down different disciplinary and methodological avenues. Since the important essay on Campanian houses by A. Wallace-Hadrill in 1988, new excavations and scores of books and articles have changed the picture of Pompeii and, with it, that of the Roman house. Theoretical archaeologists have taken…
The Art of Ancient Spectacle
Festivals, ceremonies, rituals, and other displays provide powerful ways to create and express a collective identity. This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts. The contributors to the volume consider how participation and spectatorship in diverse public activities influenced perceptions of what it meant to be Greek or Roman. And they examine the essential roles of …
Pliny family
Pliny the elder
Museum Review: Final Hours: Victims of Vesuvius and Their Possessions
Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (2 works)