A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down.
The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Objects set.
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
Edited by:
Professor Robin Osborne
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 169mm,
ISBN: 9781350463349
ISBN 10: 1350463345
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 May 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
VOLUME 1: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF OBJECTS IN ANTIQUITY Edited by Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge, UK 1. Objecthood, Robin Osborne 2. Technology, Courtney Ann Roby 3. Economic Objects, Jennifer Gates 4. Everyday Objects, Lin Foxhall 5. Art, Miguel John Versluys 6. Architecture, Rabun Taylor 7. Bodily Objects, Caroline Vout 8. Object Worlds, Ann Kuttner
ROBIN OSBORNE is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and of the British Academy. His work spreads over the archaeology, art history and history of Greece, particularly between 800 and 300 BCE. His most recent books are The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Princeton, 2018) and, with P.J. Rhodes, Greek Historical Inscriptions 478–404B.C. (Oxford, 2017).
