Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality (Sather Classical Lectures)

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Visual culture used to be an very important a part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things used to be of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the basic phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous have an effect on at the ancient world, bearing in mind memory over the years, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art in addition to of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways wherein these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.

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