Icon, cult, and context : sacred spaces and objects in the classical world : an edited volume featuring papers written by former students and colleagues of Susan B. Downey on the occasion of her retirement /
"This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and de...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Los Angeles :
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From Heracles to Zeus Megistos : Susan Downey's academic contributions / Maura K. Heyn and Ann Irvine Steinsapir
- Menerva on the couch : a votive figurine from Cerveteri of unusual iconography / Helen (Ili) Nagy
- A new interpretation of the Mounted Hunters in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos / Lucinda Dirven
- Revisiting the "Temple of Bel" at Dura-Europos : a note on the fragmentary fresco from the Naos / Ted Kaizer
- Ariadne transformed in Pompeii's House of Fabius Rufus / Lillian B. Joyce
- The importance of being Venus / Eve D'Ambra
- A portrait of a bearded man flanked by Isis and Serapis / Mary Louise Hart
- A Deuteronomic theme and second sophistic rhetoric in the Dura-Europos Synagogue paintings / May Oppenheim Talbot
- The religious iconography of Roman cameo glass / Karol B. Wight
- Pharaohs putting some skene in the game : the Hellenistic sculptural program of the Sarapieion at Saqqara and the Ptolemaic Crown / Shanna Kennedy-Quigley
- The Sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene as an expression of conflicted civic Identity / Amanda Herring
- Recent discoveries concerning religious life in Europos-Dura / Pierre Leriche.