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The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity
by Zanker, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (Former owner and date written on first page and notes written on last, otherwise clean.)
- ISBN 10
- 0520201051
- ISBN 13
- 9780520201057
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG (Former owner and date written on first page and notes written on last, otherwise clean.). Light turquoise cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & illus. dust jacket, 426 pp., BW illus. "Offers the first comprehensive history of the visual representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. Zanker draws on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in addition to artistic renderings; his work takes the reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and civic dignitaries. ... Zanker provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth-century A.D." (dj).
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155850
- Title
- The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity
- Author
- Zanker, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (Former owner and date written on first page and notes written on last, otherwise clean.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520201051
- ISBN 13
- 9780520201057
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Classical Art/Antiquities ; Classical Sculpture ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical Art/Antiquities;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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