Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
Between Art and Social Reality
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2018
426 pages
978-0-520-42144-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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.
Content
List of Illustrations • vii
Periods of Greek and Roman History • xv
Acknowledgments • xvii
Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome • 1
1. Space, Action, and Images • 15
2. Time, Memory, and Images • 97
3. Person, Identity, and Images • 153
4. The Dignity of Reality • 206
5. Representation • 257
6. Decor • 304
Notes • 341
Illustration Credits • 389
Periods of Greek and Roman History • xv
Acknowledgments • xvii
Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome • 1
1. Space, Action, and Images • 15
2. Time, Memory, and Images • 97
3. Person, Identity, and Images • 153
4. The Dignity of Reality • 206
5. Representation • 257
6. Decor • 304
Notes • 341
Illustration Credits • 389
