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The study of colour has become familiar territory in anthropology, linguistics, art history and archaeology. Classicists, however, have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to form. By drawing together evidence from contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, in this 2009 text, Mark Bradley reinstates colour as an essential informative unit for the classification and evaluation of the Roman world. He also demonstrates that the questions of what colour was and how it functioned - as well as how it could be misused and misunderstood - were topics of intellectual debate in early imperial Rome. Suggesting strategies for interpreting Roman expressions of colour in Latin texts, Dr Bradley offers alternative approaches to understanding the relationship between perception and knowledge in Roman elite thought. In doing so, he highlights the fundamental role that colour performed in the realms of communication and information, and its intellectual contribution to contemporary discussions of society, politics and morality.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome
• Author: Mark Bradley
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 282
• EAN: 9780521110426
• ISBN: 0521110424
• ID: 04378230
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 512 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 2009

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