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What did the sarcophagus of Symmachus look like? : late antique pagan sarcophagi
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ISBN: 8771841563 Year: 2019 Publisher: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press,

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"This book concerns the chronology of Roman mythological sarcophagi. The traditional chronology assumes a peak in production during the reign of Gallienus (AD 259-268) that fades away in the reign of Constantine. This chronology has some obvious flaws. The supposed peak under the reign of Gallienus, when the empire was falling apart, can only be described as a mirage. Some very fine sarcophagi were indeed produced in this period, but the number is very limited. With the reign of Constantine (AD 306-337) came wealth, and the so-called 'villa boom' that also revived sculpture in the round. At that time, it is believed that production of pagan sarcophagi had ceased to be replaced by Christian sarcophagi. This raises a very simple question, however: how were pagans buried? No doubt production of pagan sarcophagi continued beyond the turn of the century and Symmachus, who died in AD 402, was buried in such a sarcophagus."--Back cover


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What did the sarcophagus of Symmachus look like? : late antique pagan sarcophagi
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ISBN: 9788771847437 877184743X Year: 2019 Publisher: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press,

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This book concerns the chronology of Roman mythological sarcophagi. The traditional chronology assumes a peak in production during the reign of Gallienus (AD 259-268) that fades away in the reign of Constantine. This chronology has some obvious flaws. The supposed peak under the reign of Gallienus, when the empire was falling apart, can only be described as a mirage. Some very fine sarcophagi were indeed produced in this period, but the number is very limited. With the reign of Constantine (AD 306-337) came wealth, and the so-called 'villa boom' that also revived sculpture in the round. At that time, it is believed that production of pagan sarcophagi had ceased to be replaced by Christian sarcophagi. This raises a very simple question, however: how were pagans buried? No doubt production of pagan sarcophagi continued beyond the turn of the century and Symmachus, who died in AD 402, was buried in such a sarcophagus.


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A green and pagan land : myth, magic and landscape in British film and television
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ISBN: 1476629935 Year: 2018 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,

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"British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The author analyzes the evocative language and aesthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present"--

The pagan dream of the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9781578633470 1578633478 Year: 2005 Publisher: Boston, Mass. Weiser Books

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Making and breaking the gods
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ISBN: 8771244123 9788771244120 9788771240894 8771240896 Year: 2013 Publisher: Aarhus

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The basic premise of the book at hand is that there is meaning to be 'excavated' (in both meanings of the word) from Christian responses to pagan sculpture in the period from the fourth to the sixth century. More than mindless acts of religious violence by fanatical mobs, these responses are revelatory of contemporary conceptions of images and the different ways in which the material manifestations of the pagan past could be negotiated in Late Antiquity. Statues were important to the social, political and religious life of cities across the Mediterranean, as well as part of a culture of representation that was intricately bound to bodily taxonomies and visual practices

Sex, art, and American culture : essays
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ISBN: 9780679741015 0679741011 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Vintage Books, a division of Random House


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Decadent ecology in British literature and art, 1860-1910 : decay, desire, and the pagan revival
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ISBN: 1108991599 1108998526 1108845975 1108998348 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and paganism on modern understandings of nature and the environment, queer and feminist politics, national identities, and changing social hierarchies. Combining scholarship in the environmental humanities with aesthetic and literary theory, this interdisciplinary study digs into works by Simeon Solomon, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Robert Louis Stevenson, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Arthur Machen and others to address trans-temporal, trans-species intimacy; the vagabondage of place; the erotics of decomposition; occult ecology; decadent feminism; and neo-paganism. Decadent Ecology reveals the mutually influential relationship of art and science during the formulation of modern ecological, environmental, evolutionary and trans-national discourses, while also highlighting the dissident dynamism of new and recuperative pagan spiritualities - primarily Celtic, Nordic-Germanic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian - in the framing of personal, social and national identities.


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Making and breaking the gods : Christian responses to pagan sculpture in late antiquity
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Aarhus : Aarhus university press,


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Sex and violence, or nature and art
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ISBN: 0146000242 Year: 1995 Publisher: London : Penguin,

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Sexual personae : art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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ISBN: 0679735798 9780679735793 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York : Vintage Books,

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