Research Catalog

Title

Homer in stone : the Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman context / David Petrain.

Author

Petrain, David

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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• Table of contents

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Description

xiii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Summary

"The Tabulae Iliacae are a group of carved stone plaques created in the context of early Imperial Rome that use miniature images and text to retell stories from Greek myth and history - chief among them Homer's Iliad and the fall of Troy. In this book, Professor Petrain moves beyond the narrow focus on the literary and iconographic sources of the Tabulae that has characterized earlier scholarship. Drawing on ancient and modern theories of narrative, he explores instead how the tablets transfer the Troy saga across both medium and culture as they create a system of visual storytelling that relies on the values and viewing habits of Roman viewers. The book comprehensively situates the tablets in the urban fabric of Augustan Rome. New photographs of the tablets, together with re-editions and translations of key inscriptions, offer a new, clearer view of these remarkable documents of the Roman appropriation of Greek epic"--

Series Statement

Greek culture in the Roman world

Uniform Title

Greek culture in the Roman world.

Subjects

• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical et Medieval / bisacsh
• Tabula Iliaca
• Civilization, Homeric
• Relief (Sculpture), Roman
• Relief (Art)
• Mythology, Greek, in art
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
• Classical antiquities
• Homer > Iliad

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Reading visual narrative in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds -- 2. Tabula and taxis -- 3. The semantics of the center -- 4. Narrative in frieze and panel -- 5. Findspots, display contexts, and the Roman public library -- 6. Epic in miniature -- Appendix 1. Conspectus of the Tabulae Iliacae -- Appendix 2. Description of selected Tabulae : texts and images.

Call Number

JFF 14-758

ISBN

• 9781107029811 (hardback)
• 1107029813 (hardback)

LCCN

2013028501

OCLC

858246179

Author

Petrain, David, author.

Title

Homer in stone : the Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman context / David Petrain.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Greek culture in the Roman world

Greek culture in the Roman world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Research Call Number

JFF 14-758