Nature of Classical Collecting
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Nature of Classical Collecting
Collectors and Collections, 100 BCE - 100 CE
Bounia, Alexandra
Taylor & Francis Ltd
10/2004
370
Dura
Inglês
9780754600121
15 a 20 dias
639
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Contents: Preface; Introduction; Reading ancient texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation. Part I Notions of collecting in the ancient world: Collecting material testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past; 'Gifts-to-men and gifts-to-gods': defining (collecting) values; The concept of the individual as a cultural category: its implications in classical collecting; Collecting in time and space in the classical world. Part II Classical collectors and collections: Visiting Pliny's collection: reading a 'museum'; Poet's gifts, collector's worlds: the epigrams of Martial; 'Luxury is not for everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity; 'Furnishing' the collector's world: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
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Gaius Plinius Secundus;gift;Ancient Greco Roman World;exchange;Gift Exchange Tradition;tradition;Vice Versa;oportet esse thesauros;Corinthian Bronze;non libros;Cena Trimalchionis;Homeric Epic Poetry;Young Man;Classical Collecting;Bellum Civile;Verrine Orations;Sixth Century BCE;Prestigious Genealogy;Contemporary Society;Roman House;BCE;Martial's Poetry;Gift Exchange;Roman Collectors;Velleius Paterculus;Rhetorica Ad Herennium;Murrhine Cups;Roman Collecting;Mid-fifth Century BCE;Hellenistic Philosophy
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Reading ancient texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation. Part I Notions of collecting in the ancient world: Collecting material testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past; 'Gifts-to-men and gifts-to-gods': defining (collecting) values; The concept of the individual as a cultural category: its implications in classical collecting; Collecting in time and space in the classical world. Part II Classical collectors and collections: Visiting Pliny's collection: reading a 'museum'; Poet's gifts, collector's worlds: the epigrams of Martial; 'Luxury is not for everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity; 'Furnishing' the collector's world: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
Gaius Plinius Secundus;gift;Ancient Greco Roman World;exchange;Gift Exchange Tradition;tradition;Vice Versa;oportet esse thesauros;Corinthian Bronze;non libros;Cena Trimalchionis;Homeric Epic Poetry;Young Man;Classical Collecting;Bellum Civile;Verrine Orations;Sixth Century BCE;Prestigious Genealogy;Contemporary Society;Roman House;BCE;Martial's Poetry;Gift Exchange;Roman Collectors;Velleius Paterculus;Rhetorica Ad Herennium;Murrhine Cups;Roman Collecting;Mid-fifth Century BCE;Hellenistic Philosophy
