The Stones of Offering. Around the work of Christoph W. Clairmont.
| N° d'inventaire | 15202 |
| Format | 17 x 24.5 |
| Détails | 240 p., illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Zurich, 2003 |
| Etat | Occasion |
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This work, entitled "The Stones of the Offering," constitutes the second part of the communications delivered at the Clermont-Ferrand conference on December 9-11, 1998, in honor of Christoph W. Clairmont. It differs from the previous one, exclusively devoted to the steles of the classical Greek world, by the diversity of periods and approaches that constituted the originality of this conference. The analyses of specialists of the Eastern and Mediterranean world in Antiquity, beyond the descriptions of different steles, specific to their geographical areas, have highlighted the common function of these as revealing the social or cultural level of the deceased or his family: the funerary stele plays, most of the time, a role that goes well beyond the simple votive monument. This is clearly manifested through the content of the epitaphs, when a link is established between epigraphy and literature, between iconographic representation and literary genre. Musicologists and specialists in modern and contemporary literature have revealed the various forms taken by the stele to speak of death and the dead: Steles of sounds of tombs in music, stelae of photographic images, imaginary stelae, or stelae of words erected to the absent and staging biography, fiction or serving as a symbolic support for the story. Beyond the times, places, methods and supports, the stele "stone of the offering" is therefore, not only a means of perpetuating the memory of the deceased, but also for those who are still alive a way of manifesting their regret, their feelings and their meaning of life.
This work, entitled "The Stones of the Offering," constitutes the second part of the communications delivered at the Clermont-Ferrand conference on December 9-11, 1998, in honor of Christoph W. Clairmont. It differs from the previous one, exclusively devoted to the steles of the classical Greek world, by the diversity of periods and approaches that constituted the originality of this conference. The analyses of specialists of the Eastern and Mediterranean world in Antiquity, beyond the descriptions of different steles, specific to their geographical areas, have highlighted the common function of these as revealing the social or cultural level of the deceased or his family: the funerary stele plays, most of the time, a role that goes well beyond the simple votive monument. This is clearly manifested through the content of the epitaphs, when a link is established between epigraphy and literature, between iconographic representation and literary genre. Musicologists and specialists in modern and contemporary literature have revealed the various forms taken by the stele to speak of death and the dead: Steles of sounds of tombs in music, stelae of photographic images, imaginary stelae, or stelae of words erected to the absent and staging biography, fiction or serving as a symbolic support for the story. Beyond the times, places, methods and supports, the stele "stone of the offering" is therefore, not only a means of perpetuating the memory of the deceased, but also for those who are still alive a way of manifesting their regret, their feelings and their meaning of life.