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001 2013028501
003 DLC
005 20151031082030.0
008 130913s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013028501
020 $a9781107029811 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-gr---
050 00 $aPA4037$b.P47 2014
082 00 $a883/.01$223
084 $aLCO003000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPetrain, David,$eauthor.
245 10 $aHomer in Stone :$bthe Tabulae Iliacae in their Roman context /$cDavid Petrain.
264 1 $aNew York ;$aCambridge, England :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axiii, 260 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aGreek Culture in the Roman World
520 $a"The Tabulae Iliacae are a group of carved stone plaques created in the context of early Imperial Rome that use miniature images and text to retell stories from Greek myth and history - chief among them Homer's Iliad and the fall of Troy. In this book, Professor Petrain moves beyond the narrow focus on the literary and iconographic sources of the Tabulae that has characterized earlier scholarship. Drawing on ancient and modern theories of narrative, he explores instead how the tablets transfer the Troy saga across both medium and culture as they create a system of visual storytelling that relies on the values and viewing habits of Roman viewers. The book comprehensively situates the tablets in the urban fabric of Augustan Rome. New photographs of the tablets, together with re-editions and translations of key inscriptions, offer a new, clearer view of these remarkable documents of the Roman appropriation of Greek epic"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 242-255), appendices, and index.
600 00 $aHomer.$tIliad.
650 0 $aMythology, Greek, in art.
650 0 $aCivilization, Homeric.
650 0 $aClassical antiquities.
650 0 $aRelief (Art)
650 0 $aRelief (Sculpture), Roman.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/29811/cover/9781107029811.jpg