1st Edition
Encounters with Greek Art Image, Text, and the Invention of Identities in Rome and Roman Italy, 146 BCE-117 CE
By Carolyn MacDonald
Copyright 2025
280 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism between 146 BCE and 117 CE.
Bringing globalization theory to bear on a wide range of texts and images, MacDonald traces the construction and contestation of a critical nexus of categories: Greek versus Roman,... Read more
Introduction: Looking Cultured; Part I: Ekphrasis and Empire; 1. Touring Monuments 1: Apollo Palatinus; 2. Touring Monuments 2: Hercules Musarum; 3. Consuming Miniatures; Part II: Imagetexts and Identities; 4. Scenes for Hellenes: Greek Imagetexts from Rome and Roman Italy; 5. Chatting in Latin: Latin Imagotextual Frescoes of Roman Italy; Envoi.
Biography
Carolyn MacDonald is an associate professor of Classics at the University of New Brunswick (Canada). She has published on the cultural politics of Greek and Latin ekphrasis, and is co-editor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (2018).
