The Moral Mirror of Roman Art

Informationen zum Autor Rabun Taylor is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Minnesota and taught at Harvard University prior to his current appointment. His publications include Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome (2000) and Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (2003). Klappentext This book explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary study explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society. When used as metaphors in Roman visual and literary discourses! mirrors had a strongly moral force! reflecting not random reality but rather a carefully filtered imagery with a didactic message. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The teaching mirror; 2. Mirrors mortal and morbid: Narcissus and Hermaphroditus; 3. DionysiusPerseus.

Klappentext
This book explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society.

Zusammenfassung
This interdisciplinary study explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society. When used as metaphors in Roman visual and literary discourses, mirrors had a strongly moral force, reflecting not random reality but rather a carefully filtered imagery with a didactic message.

Inhalt
1. The teaching mirror; 2. Mirrors mortal and morbid: Narcissus and Hermaphroditus; 3. DionysiusPerseus.

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