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.
| ISBN: | 9781316631935 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2016 |
| Author: | David Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Petrain |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 284 pages |
| Series: | Greek Culture in the Roman World |
| Genres: |
Ancient history European history |
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.
Homer in Stone features in the following genres: Ancient history, European history
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Homer in Stone was written by David Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Petrain and published by Cambridge University Press
Homer in Stone has 284 pages
Yes it is part of Greek Culture in the Roman World series