Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi is written by Michael Koortbojian. This book covers the greek mythology in roman funerary art. This is a useful sculpture book for understanding Roman art, visual narrative and mythology.
Following are the topics covered in this Roman Sculpture book.- The Myths
- Adionis's Tale
- The repertory of images
- The departure
- The boar hunt
- Exemplum virtutis
- Death in the arms of Aphrodite
- Begining at the end
- The force of
- Adonis Redivivus
- Apotheosis
- Heroic Suffering
- The intermingling of iconographic traditions
- Revived by Aphrodite
- Endymion's Tale
- Ab Fragmento ad historiam
- Narrative extension
- Allegorical elaboration
- Perpetuae nuptiae
- Exemplum bucolicum
- Endymion's Fate
- A myth transfigured
- Endymion awake
- Endymion abandoned
- Visions of life, death and the beyond
- To Sleep, perchance to dream
- In a vision of sleep
- Somniorum coniectio
- Dreasm of adonis
- Myth, image and memory
- Tableaux and gesture
- Vita simia artis
- To keep the dead before the eyes of the living
- The recognition of correspondences
- Res caelestes terrestresque
- Duplex Aphrodite, duplex Selene
- Mythography and typology
- From narrative to symbol
- Epilogue
This study was first written in 1988, and an earlier version was submitted in 1991 as a dissertation to the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University. Much of it has been rewritten since that time...
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