Visual power in ancient Greece and Rome : between art and social reality /

• Main Author: Hölscher, Tonio (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2018.
• Series: Sather classical lectures (University of California Press) 73.
• Subjects: Οπτική αντίληψη > Κοινωνικες απόψεις > Ελλάδα > Ιστορία.; Οπτική αντίληψη > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Ρώμη > Ιστορία.; Απεικόνιση > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Ελλάδα > Ιστορία.; Απεικόνιση > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Ρώμη > Ιστορία.; Ελλάδα, Αρχαία > Κοινωνική ζωή και έθιμα; Ρώμη > Κοινωνική ζωή και έθιμα

"Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Societies were to a high degree based on civic presence in which appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explore...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. visuality and viewing in ancient Greece and Rome
• Space, action and images
• Time, memory and images
• Person, identity and images
• The dignity of reality
• Representation
• Decor.