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The Art of citizens, soldiers and freedmen in the Roman world /

Title
The Art of citizens, soldiers and freedmen in the Roman world / edited by Eve D'Ambra, Guy P.R. Métraux.
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress, c2006

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Additional Authors
  • Ambra, Eve d', 1956-
  • Métraux, Guy P. R.
Description
xviii, 167 p. : ill (some col.); 30 cm.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 1526
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-167).
Contents
I. Freedmen: art and iconography. Freedmen and immortality in the Tomb of the Haterii / Eleanor W. Leach ; Social identity and the dignity of work in freedmen's reliefs / Michele George ; Private memory and public interest: municipal identity in imperial Italy / Margaret L. Laird -- II. Transpositions from high to low. High and low: mocking philosophers in the Tavern of the Seven Sages, Ostia / John R. Clarke ; Provincial pretensions: salons of literati in Roman mosaics / Christine Kondoleon -- III. Death and commemoration. Imitations of life: style, theme, and a sculptural collection in the Isola Sacra Necropolis, Ostia / Eve D'Ambra ; The freedman's voice : the funerary monument of Aurelius Hermia and Aurelia Philematio / Michael Koortbojian -- IV. Ordinary objects. The violent domus: cruelty, gender, and class in Roman household possessions / Anthony Cutler ; Iconography of useful objects: pagan images on Late Roman commercial weights / Ann McClanan -- V. Modes of creation, production, and distribution. The art of soldiers on a Roman frontier / Natalie Boymel Kampen ; Consumers' choices: the arts in the age of Late Roman 'mechanical' reproduction / Guy P.R. Métraux.
ISBN
1841719633
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library