The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG (Former owner and date written on first page and notes written on last, otherwise clean.). Light turquoise cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & illus. dust jacket, 426 pp., BW illus. "Offers the first comprehensive history of the visual representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. Zanker draws on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in addition to artistic renderings; his work takes the reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and civic dignitaries. ... Zanker provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth-century A.D." (dj).