Greek myths in Roman art and culture : imagery, values and identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250 / / Zahra Newby, University of Warwick [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910137133303321
• Autore: Newby Zahra
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-316-71880-8; 1-316-72240-6; 1-316-72300-3; 1-316-72360-7; 1-316-72600-2; 1-316-72420-4; 1-316-72540-5; 1-139-68038-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 387 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Greek culture in the Roman world
• Classificazione: ART015060
• Disciplina: 709/.38
• Soggetti: Mythology, Greek, in art; Art, Roman - Greek influences; Art, Roman - Themes, motives; Rome Civilization Greek influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Greek myths, Roman lives; 1. Art and power in the public sphere; 2. Recreating myth in the Roman villa; 3. Paideia, rhetoric and self-representation: responses to mythological wall-paintings; 4. Mythological wall-paintings in the Roman house; 5. From home to tomb: myths in the funerary realm; 6. The rhetoric of mythological sarcophagi: praise, lament and consolation 7. Epilogue: the Roman past, the culture of exemplarity and a new role for Greek myth.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.