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- ISBN 9781119077893
- Weight: 1134g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2019
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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- Offers comprehensive and original essays on the study of Roman art
- Contributions from distinguished scholars with unrivalled expertise covering a broad range of international approaches
- Focuses on the socio-historical aspects of Roman art, covering several topics that have not been presented in any detail in English
- Includes both close readings of individual art works and general discussions
- Provides an overview of main aspects of the subject and an introduction to current debates in the field
Barbara E. Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University. She has published widely on Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Her books include Mumienporträts: Chronologie und Kontext (1999), Der Logos des Mythos Allegorien und Personifikationen in der frühen griechischen Kunst (2002), Crisis and ambition: tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome (2013), Roman tombs and the art of commemoration: contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE (2019), and the edited volume Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic (2004). She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes, including a Getty Research Fellowship, a Senior Onassis Fellowship, the Hugh Last Fellowship at the British School at Rome, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
