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