Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations and Photo Credits -- Notes on the Contributors -- Museum Archetypes and Collecting: An Overview of the Public, Private, and Virtual Collections of the Ancient World -- Chapter 1 Towards the Museum: Perceiving the Art of "Others" in the Ancient Near East -- Chapter 2 Greek Temple Treasures and the Invention of Collecting -- Chapter 3 Collecting the Past, Creating the Future: Art Displays in the Hellenistic Mediterranean -- Chapter 4 Hellenistic Court Collecting from Alexandros to the Attalids -- Chapter 5 Poetic Depictions of Ancient Dactyliothecae -- Chapter 6 The Culture of Collecting in Roma: Between Politics and Administration -- Chapter 7 Archetypes of Collecting in the Roman World: Antiquarianism, Gift Exchange, Identity and Time-Space as Parameters of Value -- Chapter 8 Verres, Cicero and Other Collectors in Late Republican Rome -- Chapter 9 Collectables, Antiques and Sumptuary Trends in Ancient Roma: A Look around the Dining Halls of the Late Republic and Early Empire -- Chapter 10 Private Art Galleries in Roma: Literary and Archaeological Evidence -- Chapter 11 Temple Inventory and Fictive Picture Gallery: Ancient Painting between Votive Offering and Artwork -- Chapter 12 Collecting Culture: Statues and Fragments in Roman Gardens -- Chapter 13 The Opportunistic Collector: Sources of Statuary Décor and the Nature of Late Antique Collecting -- Chapter 14 Collecting and the Creation of History -- Afterword. Framing Knowledge: Collecting Objects, Collecting Texts -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources -- Modern Works -- Index A. Ancient Texts Cited or Mentioned -- Index B. Place Names -- Index C. Personal Names -- Index D. Notable Greek, Latin and Egyptian Words -- Index E. General Subjects.

Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers the first general overview of the reasons why ancient civilizations from Archaic Greece to the Early Christian period amassed objects and displayed them together in public, private and imaginary contexts.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.