Statues and Cities
Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
Seiten
2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-873893-0 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-873893-0 (ISBN)
This book combines archaeology and epigraphy to discuss portraits in ancient art within the context of city-states honouring individuals through erecting statues, and families imitating this practice. This tells us a lot about the history of these cities and how ancient art worked as a construction of relations during the Hellenistic period.
Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting statues, and the development of families imitating this practice.
This transaction tells us a lot about the history of these cities and how ancient art worked as a construction of relations during the Hellenistic period (c. 350 BC-c. AD 1), which is marked by a political culture of civic devotion, common decision making, and publicness.
As honorific statues were considered public art, the volume also investigates the workings of images, representations, memory, and the monumental public form of permanent inscription, to see what stories the Hellenistic city-states can reveal about themselves.
Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting statues, and the development of families imitating this practice.
This transaction tells us a lot about the history of these cities and how ancient art worked as a construction of relations during the Hellenistic period (c. 350 BC-c. AD 1), which is marked by a political culture of civic devotion, common decision making, and publicness.
As honorific statues were considered public art, the volume also investigates the workings of images, representations, memory, and the monumental public form of permanent inscription, to see what stories the Hellenistic city-states can reveal about themselves.
John Ma is a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. A former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he has taught at Princeton and has held visiting appointments in Paris. He is interested in ancient history, especially Greek, and archaeology.
PREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF PLANS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I STATUES AND STORIES; PART II STATUES AND PLACES; PART III STATUES AND FAMILIES; PART IV STATUES AS IMAGES; CONCLUSION; PLANS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX LOCORUM; GENERAL INDEX
Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation |
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Zusatzinfo | 73 in-text illustrations and plans |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 192 x 248 mm |
Gewicht | 762 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-873893-5 / 0198738935 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-873893-0 / 9780198738930 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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