Tradition: Transmission of Culture in the Ancient World (Acta Hyperborea) - Softcover

 
9788763542586: Tradition: Transmission of Culture in the Ancient World (Acta Hyperborea)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8763542587 ISBN 13: 9788763542586
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015

Synopsis

This lavishly illustrated book takes readers from prehistoric Santorini to Late Antique Rome to analyze the role of tradition in the transmission of culture and the creation, maintenance, and negotiation of identity in the ancient world. Covering a wide array of subjects, including cultic rituals and the use of magical objects and symbols, votive traditions in Greek sanctuaries, funerary portraits, and Iron Age pottery, Tradition reveals how culture inheres in each, and how actions and objects alike play a role in culture’s continuation and change. With its thoroughly interdisciplinary approach, Tradition breaks new ground in studies of the classical and ancient world.

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About the Authors

Jane Fejfer is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Copenhagen.


Mette Moltesen is a curator of ancient sculpture and the coauthor of Catalogue of Copies of Etruscan Tomb Paintings in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 
 

Annette Rathje is associate professor emerita of classical archaeology at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen.  

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Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8763542587
ISBN 13 
9788763542586
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
480
Editor
Fejfer Jane, Moltesen Mette, Rathje Annette