6. In the Guise of Gods and Heroes: Portrait Heads on Roman Mythological Sarcophagi

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Before Sarcophagi 21
6. 2. Habent sua fata: Writing life histories of Roman Sarcophagi 55
7. 3. Tragedy’s Forgotten Beauty: the Medieval Return of Orestes 83
8. 4. The Roman Sarcophagus ‘Industry’: a Reconsideration 119
9. 5. Multimethod Analyses of Roman Sarcophagi at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome 149
10. 6. In the Guise of Gods and Heroes: Portrait Heads on Roman Mythological Sarcophagi 189
11. 7. Man or Woman? Cross-gendering and Individuality on Third Century Roman Sarcophagi 229
12. 8. Myth and Visual Narrative in the Second Sophistic – a Comparative Approach: Notes on an Attic Hippolytos Sarcophagus in Agrigento 261
13. 9. Image in Distress? The death of Meleager on Roman sarcophagi 309
14. 10. Borrowed Verse and Broken Narrative: Agency, Identity, and the (Bethesda) Sarcophagus of Bassa 337
15. 11. Image and Rhetoric in Early Christian Sarcophagi: Reflections on Jesus’ Trial 359
16. 12. ‘Houses of the dead’? Columnar sarcophagi as ‘micro-architecture’ 387
17. Backmatter 437