Отражение античных мифов в искусстве мозаики африканского Средиземноморья
Reflection Of Ancient Myths In African Mediterranean Mosaic Art

Author(s): Elena Eltsova, Nadezhda Lekomtseva
Subject(s): History, Ethnohistory
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Greco-Roman mythology; mosaics I-IV centuries AD; Rome; North Africa; Tunisia
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the embodiment of the plots of Greco-Roman antique mythology (VIII – I centuries BC) in the Roman mosaics of Tunisia (I-IV centuriesAD). Their connection between the artistic and illustrative possibilities of the ancient mosaic art masters of North Africa and the literary and verbal tradition of the Mediterranean-European civilization (Hesiod, Homer, Theocritus, Ovid, Virgil) is traced. Thematically, on the North African coast the most expressive were the plots connected with the images of the Ocean, Poseidon, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Apollo and other ancient deities. Among the monuments of mosaic art, paintings dedicated to the seasons and to the Muses, the patronesses of science, poetry and the arts, also stand out.

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