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Images for Classicists (Loeb Classical Monographs)
Kathleen M. Coleman
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Description for Images for Classicists (Loeb Classical Monographs)
Hardcover. Images for Classicists shows how text and image taken together complicate and enrich our understanding of ancient culture. Working to dissolve distinctions between text- and artifact-based scholarship, it explores challenges the digital revolution poses to curators and sketches ways that image-based collections may be deployed in the future. Series: Loeb Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG; DSBB; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes contradict the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be anxious about decorated ceilings? Can numismatic images solve problems in Augustan politics or explain the provenance of the Warren Cup? How are the curators of ancient artifacts to supply the high-quality digital images that scholars need in order to answer these questions? And how are text-based scholars to make productive use of them? Images have their own semantic language, and their survival, usually divorced from their ... Read more
How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes contradict the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be anxious about decorated ceilings? Can numismatic images solve problems in Augustan politics or explain the provenance of the Warren Cup? How are the curators of ancient artifacts to supply the high-quality digital images that scholars need in order to answer these questions? And how are text-based scholars to make productive use of them? Images have their own semantic language, and their survival, usually divorced from their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Department of the Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Loeb Classical Monographs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674428362
SKU
V9780674428362
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About Kathleen M. Coleman
Kathleen M. Coleman is James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.
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