Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture, Hardback/***

Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. This collection of essays presents a large arena of responses and theoretical formulations about Roman visual culture within the literature of ancient rhetoric that has been significantly neglected in normative art history and Classical archaeology. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Illustration(s): 128 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified Number of pages: 524 Publication date: 2014 Dimensions: 183 x 248 x 29 Cover type: Hardback Editor(s): Michel (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) Meyer