Death by analogy: identity crises on a Roman sarcophagus
This article examines how images on a sarcophagus involved Roman viewers in processes of thinking by analogy and so invited them to engage in meditation on death. This more thanatological slant is sidelined in current approaches that emphasise how exemplary figures on sarcophagi consoled the bereave...
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Cambridge University Press
2023
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