Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Author:   Michael Squire
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   560
Publication Date:   05 February 2015
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Author:   Michael Squire
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9781107657540


ISBN 10:   1107657547
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   05 February 2015
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Preface: kicking the habit?; Part I: 1. Words and pictures in a post-Lutheran age; 2. Towards an older Laocoon? Reviewing the 'limits' of painting and poetry in the Graeco-Roman world; Part II: 3. Materialising ecphrasis: image and word in the Sperlonga Grotto; 4. Speaking for pictures? Images, texts and modes of visual-verbal response in the 'House of Propertius' at Assisi; Part III: 5. Cyclopian iconotexts: the adventures of Polyphemus in image and text; 6. The art of nature and the nature of art: visual-verbal interactions in the consumption of Roman 'still-life' paintings; Envoi: the bigger picture.

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'This book is a major contribution to our understanding of image-text interactions in antiquity.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review


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Michael Squire is a Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, and concurrently holds an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Humboldt Universität, Berlin. He is also the co-author (with Nigel Spivey) of Panorama of the Classical World, 2nd edition (2004).

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