ISBN:
9789042920040 (pbk.)
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 769 p. :
,
ill., maps, plans ;
,
24 cm.
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ;
DDC:
733/.50934
Description / Table of Contents:
Reconsidering Hellenism in the Roman Near East : introductory remarks / Glen Bowersock -- The nature of Syrian Hellenism in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods / Maurice Sartre -- The Jews in the Roman world / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Marble sculpture of the Roman period in the Near East and its Hellenistic origins / Gideon Foerster -- The sculptor’s studio at Aphrodisias : the working methods and varieties of sculpture produced / Peter Rockwell -- The classical heritage in late antique Palestine : the fate of freestanding sculptures / Yoram Tsafrir -- The destruction of pagan statuary and Christianization (fourth-sixth century C.E.) / Frank R. Trombley -- The imperial cult in the East : images of power and the power of intolerance / John Pollini -- Statues on the wall : the representation of statuary in Roman wall painting / Eric M. Moormann -- Narrative and identity in mosaics from the late Roman Near East : pagan, Jewish, and Christian / Fergus Millar -- The missing pieces : miniature reflections of the Hellenistic artistic landscape in the East / Sharon Herbert -- Statues and inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina / Werner Eck -- Baetyls as statues? : cult images in the Roman Near East / Peter Stewart -- Visualizing deities in the Roman Near East : aspects of Athena ad Athena-Allat / Elise A. Friedland -- Roman sculpture from the exedra in the Temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra / Fawzi Zayadine -- Sculptures from southern Syrian sanctuaries of the Roman period / Thomas M. Weber -- The statues of the sanctuary of Allat in Palmyra / Michal Gawlikowski -- The role of sculpture in worship at the temples of Dura-Europos / Susan B. Downey -- Divine statues in the works of Libanius of Antioch : the actual and rhetorical desacralization of pagan cult furniture in the late fourth century C.E. / Ellen Perry -- Imagining an eastern Roman empire : a riot at Antoch in 387 C.E. / Raymond Van Dam -- [et al.]
Note:
"All the contributions in this volume stem from an international conference that took place on November 7 to 10, 2004, at the University of Michigan and the Toledo Museum of Art"--Acknowledgements, p. [xxiii].
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