This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history the late third century CE a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It argues that more was being written during this time than past scholars have realized and takes as i... Lees meer.
This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites the... Lees meer.
How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking. Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin Greek Hebrew and Aramaic t... Lees meer.
In the first centuries BCE and CE Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art especially panel paintings within their own mural compositions. Nathaniel B. Jones argues that the depiction of panel painting within mural ensembles functioned as... Lees meer.