The Nature of Classical Collecting

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  • Author : Alexandra Bounia
  • Release Date : 2017-07-05
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 371
  • ISBN 13 : 135188526X
  • File Size : 57,57 MB
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The Nature of Classical Collecting by Alexandra Bounia PDF Summary

Book Description: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- General Preface to the Series -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reading Ancient Texts: methodological approaches to interpretation and appropriation -- Part I: Notions of Collecting in the Ancient World -- 2 Collecting Material Testimonies: antiquarianism and notions of the past -- 3 'Gifts-to-Men and Gifts-to-Gods': defining (collecting) values -- 4 The Concept of the Individual as a Cultural Category: its implications in classical collecting -- 5 Collecting in Time and Space in the Classical World -- Part II: Classical Collectors and Collections -- 6 Visiting Pliny's Collection: reading a 'museum' -- 7 Poet's Gifts, Collector's Words: the epigrams of Martial -- 8 'Luxury is Not for Everybody': collecting as a means of sharing cultural and social identity -- 9 'Furnishing' the Collector's World: Cicero's Epistulae and the Verrine Orations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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