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  • Four - Culture, Status, and Rising Populism

  • Mont Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  • Book:
    The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
    Published online:
    13 January 2023
    Print publication:
    29 December 2022, pp 111-140

  • Summary

    This chapter turns from religious and political explanations to those that frame demythologization in terms of other social and cultural shifts. Some have proposed that it reflects a rising populism, a widespread decline in education levels, or a diminution in the value Romans assigned to mythological culture. Others have seen in the rise of mythless genres a growing desire for imagery that more clearly projected social status. All are examined.

  • Six - Distinguishing the Mythological

  • Mont Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  • Book:
    The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
    Published online:
    13 January 2023
    Print publication:
    29 December 2022, pp 167-196

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the question of whether we have drawn too strong a distinction between the mythic and the non-mythic. What happens if we consider not iconographic criteria, but modal ones? Taken from the viewpoint of function rather than subject matter, the distinction between mythic and mythless imagery becomes shaky indeed. This chapter first revisits the relationship between the mythological and the so-called biographical sarcophagi, then shows how close attention to Roman sculptural technique – what we might call “material iconography” – provides traction for understanding how Roman viewers imagined the relationship between these genres.