The present monograph takes its place in a now well-established tradition of seeing sarcophagi as visual statements of deceased individuals that used allegories

The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplemen

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Lor