Visibility and invisibility in the religions of Rome
Subtitle: papers from the NEH Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome, 2007
Contributors: American Academy in Rome
Series: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome -- v. 56/57 (2011/2012); Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome -- v. 56-57.
Publisher: American Academy in Rome; [Ann Arbor, Mich.]; Distributed by the University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781879549203
Subjects: Congresses; Religion; Religious life and customs; Classical philology; Antiquities; Civilization
Notes: Title from p. [vii].

"Earlier versions of [some papers], and of some others that have already been published separately, were presented at a special panel at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association in 2009"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Karl Galinsky; title: Introduction: People, places, and rituals in the religions of Rome  -- Lauren Hackworth Petersen; title: Parsing piety: the sacred still life in Roman relief sculpture  -- Laetitia La Follette; title: On the outside looking in: Pliny's Natural history and the portrayal of invisibility rituals in the Latin West  -- Richard L. Phillips; title: Cult and circus in Vaticanum  -- Regina Gee; title: Finding his niche: on the "autoapotheosis" of Augustus  -- A.J. Droge; title: Urbanism and identity at classical Morgantina  -- Justin St. P. Walsh; title: The visual dreamscape of Propertius 3.3  -- Emma Scioli; title: The Pons Siblicius: a reinvestigation  -- Pier Luigi Tucci; title: Apollo and Daphne by Antonio del Pollaiuolo and the poetry of Lorenzo de' Medici  -- Luba Freedman; title: Leonardo Bufalini and the first printed map of Rome, "the most beautiful of all things"  -- Jessica Maier; title: The matrix: Le sette chiese di Roma of 1575 and the image of pilgrimage  -- Barbara Wisch; title: "Universal history of the characters of letters and languages": an unknown manuscript by Athanasius Kircher  -- Daniel Stolzenberg; title: G.B. Piranesi's Diverse maniere and the natural history of ancient art  -- Heather Hyde Minor; title: Architectural amnesia: George Howe, Mario de Renzi, and the U.S. Consulate in Naples  -- Denise R. Costanzo; title: A forgotten dig near Ostia  -- Archer Martin; title: Research in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2010-2011).