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The Art of Citizens, Soldiers and Freedmen in the Roman World
Eve D'Ambra and Guy P.R. Métraux
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This collection of essays promises to make an important contribution to the field of Roman studies, particularly, by its concentration on monuments, to that of Roman art history. The current high level of interest in problems of identity, including studies of colonialism, Romanization, ethnicity, social class, gender and a host of related topics creates a vital intellectual context for the study of the art of provincials and the lower classes. The monuments themselves contribute a critical dimension to this discourse, the more so because the textual evidence for the non-elites of Roman society, apart from inscriptions, is relatively scarce.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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List of Illustrations
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction
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I. Freedmen: Art and Iconography
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Freedmen and Immortality in the Tomb of the Haterii
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Social Identity and the Dignity of Work in Freedmen’s Reliefs
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Private Memory and Public Interest: Municipal Identity in Imperial Italy
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II. Transpositions from High to Low
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High and Low: Mocking Philosophers in the Tavern of the Seven Sages, Ostia
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Provincial Pretensions: Salons of Literati in Roman Mosaics
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III. Death and Commemoration
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Imitations of Life: Style, Theme and a Sculptural Collection in the Isola Sacra Necropolis, Ostia
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The Freedman’s Voice: The funerary Monument of Aurelius Hermia and Aurelia Philematio
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IV. Ordinary Objects
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The Violent Domus: Cruelty, Gender, and Class in Roman Household Possessions
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Measuring Athena: Pagan Images on Late Roman Commercial Weights
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V. Modes of Creation, Production and Distribution
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The Art of Soldiers on a Roman Frontier: Style and the Antonine Wall
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Consumers’ Choices: Aspects of the Arts in the Age of Late Roman ‘Mechanical’ Reproduction
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Bibliography
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Published: 2006
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841719634 (paperback)
- 9781407329819 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1526
- Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
- Roman
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)
- Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals
- Mediterranean
- Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
- Western Europe and Britain