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Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi

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
Preface
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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