War suffused Roman life to a degree unparalleled in other ancient societies. Through a combination of obsessive discipline and frenzied (though carefully orchestrated) brutality, Rome's armies conquered most of the lands stretching from Scotland to Syria, and the Black Sea to Gibraltar. The place of war in Roman culture has been studied in historical terms, but this is the first book to examine the ways in which Romans represented war, in both visual imagery and in literary accounts. Audience reception and the reconstruction of display contexts are recurrent themes here, as is the language of images: a language that is sometimes explicit and at other times allusive in its representation of war. The chapters encompass a wide variety of art media (architecture, painting, sculpture, building, relief, coin), and they focus on the towering period of Roman power and international influence: the 3rd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521848176
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96583377
Product Key Features
Book Title
Representations of War in Ancient Rome
Author
Katherine E. Welch, Sheila Dillon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Art & Culture
Number of Pages
382 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
261mm
Item Width
184mm
Item Weight
1020g
Additional Product Features
Editor
Katherine E. Welch, Sheila Dillon
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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