Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi

A strange thing happened to Roman sarcophagi in the third century:  their Greek mythic imagery vanished. Since the beginning of their production a century earlier, these beautifully carved coffins had featured bold mythological scenes. How do we make sense of this imagery''s own death on later sarcophagi, when mythological narratives were truncated, gods and heroes were excised, and genres featuri...