Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1322
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9780511732317
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107000711
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- With my co-editor, I commissioned, made suggestions on and enabled revisions to the essays of the volume. As a whole the book makes the case for the educational culture of ancient rhetoric as a very fruitful and underexploited resource for understanding Roman art across a multiplicity of media. My lengthy introduction sets the scene for the importance and frequency of ancient usage of artistic metaphors and references to artists' practices in Roman rhetorical text-books in order to understand issues of style and presentation in rhetoric itself and the possibilities for turning this back to an emic, that is internally generated, discourse for conceiving of visual culture within the Roman world. My own essay, on the imagery of sarcophagi as both eulogistic and potentially polemical (especially in early Christian adaptations of the medium), attempts to demonstrate the ways rhetorical understandings can transform the discourses we use and the forms of understanding we have developed for this hugely popular and widely attested elite medium of funerary art.
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- Non-English
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