Mythologie

Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung spätantiker Ideal- und Portraitplastik: Stilkritik, Kontexte, naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen

Beiträge eines Workshops an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 13.–16. Juni 2018

21 x 29.7 cm, 196 p., paperback / softback
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The contributions to a workshop on late antique sculpture, held at Halle University in 2018, discuss new findings and research projects as well as archaeometric analyses of sculpture, with a focus on the 4th to 6th centuries AD, in search …

Relief- und stempelverzierte nordafrikanische Sigillata des späten 2. bis 6. Jahrhunderts

Römisches Tafelgeschirr der Sammlung K. Wilhelm

21 x 29.7 cm, 596 p., 220 Tafeln, 1 Beilage, hardback
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This study focuses on the wide range of vessel forms and decoration of the rare appliqué-decorated red slip ware from northern Tunisia, and especially the appliqué-, relief- and stamp-decorated sigillata made in the most imprtant mid and late Roman potteries …

Flesheaters

An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi. University of California at Berkeley 18–19 September 2009

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Roman metropolitan sarcophagi are often adorned with reliefs representing the lives of the heroes and heroines of Greek myth. Why were particular Greek myths so popular? How easy – or difficult – was it to identify and interpret the mythical …

Die Messingstadt

Eine Erzählung aus „Tausendundeiner Nacht“. Architektur einer Heiligwerdung

17 x 24 cm, 304 p., hardback
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Anyone associating The Arabian Nights with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading “City of Brass” (Nights 566−578). This tale deals not with the lust for life but, on the contrary, with the vanity of existence: Each individual who …

Himerios. Reden und Fragmente

Einführung, Übersetzung und Kommentar

17 x 24 cm, 436 p., 4 s/w-Abb. im Tafelteil; 4 Strichzeichnungen im Text, cloth
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The orations of the rhetor Himerius, a professor in Athens in the late classical era, are here trans-lated for the first time into a modern language. They illustrate vividly the rhetorical education at an academy of the 4th century A.D. …

Im Auftrag des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom herausgegeben von Francesco de Angelis und Susanne Muth. Mit Beiträgen von T. Hölscher, C. Marconi, L. Giuliani, F. de Angelis, K. Coleman, B. Bergmann, S. Muth, P. Zanker und B. C. Ewald

Im Spiegel des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt

Lo specchio del mito. Immaginario e realtà. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums, Rom vom 19. bis 20. Februar 1998

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Representations of Greek myths are a fundamental constant in cultures of the classical ancient world. From the early period of the Greek polis up until the late Caesar period, in Greece, Etruria and Rome, everywhere we are confronted with a …

Menschenopfer und Mord am Altar

Griechische Mythen in etruskischen Gräbern

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Numerous Etruscan monuments of the 4th to the 1st century BC contain depictions of human sacrifices and of various acts of violance committed in sacred places. There is a broad range of themes, taken mostly from Greek mythology. This volume …