Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
Biographical note
Joannis Mylonopoulos, Ph.D. (2001) in Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, is Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek religion including Πελοπόννησος οἰκητήριον Ποσειδῶνος. Heiligtümer und Kulte des Poseidon auf der Peloponnes (CIERGA, 2003) and Archäologie und Ritual (Phoibos, 2006).
Readership
All those interested in art history, the history of religion, the history of mentalities, and the history of intellectual discourse, as well as classical archaeologists and classical philologists.
Reviews
"This book is an altogether worthwhile read and successfully covers many different aspects and questions concerning
the visualization of divine images and the human treatment of, and reactions to, these."
Anne Lykke, Department of Classical Archaeology University of Vienna
European Journal of Archaeology 14 (1–2) 2011
the visualization of divine images and the human treatment of, and reactions to, these."
Anne Lykke, Department of Classical Archaeology University of Vienna
European Journal of Archaeology 14 (1–2) 2011
Table of contents
Contributors include: Fritz Blakolmer, Alessandra Bravi, Gunnel Ekroth, Sylvia Estienne, Milette Gaifman, Fernande Hölscher, Catherine M. Keesling, Katja Moede, Joannis Mylonopoulos, Ivana Petrovic, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Tanja Scheer, Dirk Steuernagel.
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