This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

A concise introduction highlighting theoretical and methodological issues and describing the strategies ancient artists used in order to instruct and persuade.

In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the fra

In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī�

This book provides an enquiry into the distinguishing traits of Greek and Roman figural imagery. A detailed analysis of a wide range of material conveys an unde