Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
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agora
ancient greece
ancient politics
ancient religion
ancient rome
ancient world
antiquity
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classical
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decoration
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personal appearance
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public spaces
reality
religion
religious rituals
religious studies
sanctuaries
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visual culture
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- ISBN 9780520294936
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.
Tonio Hölscher is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a visiting lecturer in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. His main publications address political monuments, social imagery and the use of images, public architecture, and urbanism in ancient Greece and Rome.
