Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture

Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC–AD 250

Bibliographic Data

ID19923537
AuthorsZahra Newby (University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-08-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGreek Myths in Roman Art and Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139680387
OpenAlexW2783698898
ISBN9781139680387
Open LibraryOL34556749M
LanguageEN
Citations received20

Images of episodes from Greek mythology are widespread in Roman art, appearing in sculptural groups, mosaics, paintings and reliefs. They attest to Rome's enduring fascination with Greek culture, and its desire to absorb and reframe that culture for new ends. This book provides a comprehensive account of the meanings of Greek myth across the spectrum of Roman art, including public, domestic and funerary contexts. It argues that myths, in addition to functioning as signifiers of a patron's education or paideia, played an important role as rhetorical and didactic exempla. The changing use of mythological imagery in domestic and funerary art in particular reveals an important shift in Roman values and senses of identity across the period of the first two centuries AD, and in the ways that Greek culture was turned to serve Roman values

Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Art · Art history · Cognitive reframing · Greek art · Greek mythology · Literature · Mythology · Paideia · Painting · Period (music) · Rhetorical question · Roman art · Roman Empire · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Psychology · Ancient & Classical · Art, Roman · civilization · Greek · Greek influences · Mythology, in art · Roman Art · Rome · Themes, motives

Tools

Open DOI