Michael Squire Bücher

The book offers a comprehensive synthesis of the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, covering a vast historical period from 700 B.C. to the early 4th century A.D. It integrates recent scholarship on various themes such as gender, war, imperialism, and cultural identity, emphasizing the enduring impact of classical antiquity on modern society. The extensive reference section enhances the reader's understanding with biographies, a glossary, and a timeline, making it an invaluable resource for those interested in the foundations of Western civilization.

Exploring the interplay between visual and verbal communication, this richly illustrated work delves into the historical context of Greek and Roman antiquity. Dr. Squire challenges modern separations of images and texts, highlighting a more integrated relationship in classical times. By tracing contemporary concepts of 'words' and 'pictures' back to post-Reformation theology and aesthetics, the book fosters a reexamination of our current ideologies. This interdisciplinary approach combines classics and art history, offering a fresh perspective on Western visual culture.

A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles major themes through small ones, by relating their production to macroscopic problems of signification in Graeco-Roman antiquity.

This volume explores one of the most complex, multifaceted and momentous of all western cultural transformations: the refashioning of the Roman principate under Constantine in the early fourth century AD. It does so through the kaleidoscopic lens of one of antiquity's most fascinating (and maligned) artists: Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius. Optatian's works are little known among classicists and historians. Nevertheless, his picture-poems uniquely reflect, figure, and shape the cultural dynamics of the period. By bringing together different disciplinary perspectives the volume demonstrates how the poems give unique form to the various political, intellectual and cultural currents of the age. Contributors champion Optatian as a uniquely creative artist - and one who anticipated some of our most pressing literary critical, art historical and philosophical concerns today.