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Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire
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Description
At once confrontational and evasive, enabling and terrifying, mirrors and masks hold extraordinary resonance as objects, images and metaphors. As such, they had the capacity to mediate encounters, enable performances and effect visual and social metamorphoses in myriad different ways throughout the Roman Empire. Exploring these contexts can enrich our understanding of the meanings and uses of mirrors and masks in the Roman world, not only in isolation in their immediate locations, but also in the influence they might have exerted on each other. By examining how the populations of empire encountered themselves and each other through these masks and mirrors, we can also observe how classical culture allowed communication and miscommunication between these communities. Crucially, too, we can trace how Roman understandings of these objects not only shaped their own attitude to provincial users, but have also helped form perceptions that continue to mask those provincial populations today.
Product details
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 266
- Release Date:
- 2025-12-11
- Publication Date:
- 2025-12-11
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1350412678
- ISBN13:
- 9781350412675
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 567 g
- Height:
- 161 cm
- Width:
- 240 cm
- Thickness:
- 19 cm
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