Facing the Gods PDF book is popular Art book written by Verity Jane Platt. The book was released by Cambridge University Press on 2011-07-28 with total hardcover pages 501. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Facing the Gods by Verity Jane Platt in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations not only in art, but also in literature, histories and inscriptions. The cultural analysis of
This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and as a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world, exploring divine manifestations and their
In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production, and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating pre-existing power-structures
This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to ac
