Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome 2010, 456.pp. (edited by Joannis Mylonopoulos ) is the 170.th volum of the famous Brill Editure in the series of RGRW (continuation of EPRO).
The topic of the images of Gods is a problematic discussion especially in the focus of the art historians and historians of religion (see the debate in the article of Richard Gordon, Image and Value in the Graeco-Roman World, Studies in Mithraism and Religious Art, Variorum, Aldershot, 1996).
Short presentation of the book on the page of Brill:
"The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication" (loc.cit.)
The book's review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review: here
Other books in this topic:
Green, Miranda, An Archaeology of Images – Iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe, London – New York, 2004
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