Download or read book The Mask of Socrates written by Paul Zanker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated work, Paul Zanker 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.