Statues and cities : honorific portraits and civic identity in the Hellenistic world
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Statues and cities : honorific portraits and civic identity in the Hellenistic world
（Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation / general editors, Simon Price, R.R.R. Smith, Oliver Taplin）
Oxford University Press, 2013
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-348) and indexes
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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