The eschatological banquet: hidden transcripts in the funerary banquet scenes of the Christian catacombs
Like most images found in the Christian catacombs of Rome, the banquet scenes came into Christian use after long employment in other Greco-Roman contexts. The funerary banquet frescoes are iconographically similar to the “symposium” motif found in non-Christian contexts, and their Christian meaning...
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2010
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