The learned collector : mythological statuettes and classical taste in late antique Gaul /
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2005]
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| Serier: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Findspots, functions, and the burden of proof: some questions of methodology
- Late antique villas in southwest Gaul and their sculptural collections
- Issues of style, chronology, and origins
- Paideia and the world of Ausonius of Bordeaux: the social environment of late mythological statuary
- Learned collectors across the empire
- Statuary, paideia, and collecting: conclusions.