Ancient mythological images and their interpretation: an introduction to iconology, semiotics and image studies in classical art history
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 3540407
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9780521195089
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 300-page monograph draws on inter-disciplinary approaches to experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus. Theoretical approaches to images from different disciplines are applied (iconology, semiotics, and image studies) and these impact on the meanings drawn from Greek and Roman art. A new framework for the study of ancient visual culture is then proposed in a guide to Classical images of myth, and a critical review of Classical archaeology's attempts to give meaning to images.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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