Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 March 2016
- ISBN 9780198746454
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 281x228x31 mm
- Weight 1608 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 238 black and white illustrations, 8-page colour plates section, and 8 maps 0
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Short description:
This volume brings together for the first time ancient Macedonian stone funerary monuments, or stelai, which feature figured representations of the deceased and their relatives. Taking as its focus the Classical and Hellenistic periods, it goes beyond artistic evaluation to consider the social history and wider meaning of the monuments.
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Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC brings together for the first time a substantial body of material from ancient Macedonia, comprising stone funerary monuments, be they statues, stelai, or reliefs, which feature figured representations. The volume's geographical focus encompasses what can be referred to as the national territory of the ancient Macedonians, as established largely from the reign of Philip II until the last Antigonids, and extending from the range of Mount Pindos and Lake Lychnitis in the west as far as the Strymon valley and Mount Pangaion in the east. Its broad chronological scope stretches back to prehistoric times, when stone funerary monuments seem to have first appeared in the area, and into the first century AD, when significant changes in the modes which shaped (self-) representation in a funerary context can be traced. However, the volume takes as its main focus the Classical and Hellenistic periods, describing and unravelling the codes which moulded the representation of the dead on tombstones dating from the fifth to the first century BC. Paying close attention to the wealth of information that can be gained through morphological, typological, iconographical, and epigraphic analysis, the volume goes beyond artistic evaluation to consider social history: social and gender roles, social status, cultural identity, regionalism or consciously constructed cosmopolitanism, shifts in religious behaviour, and attitudes towards death and a possible afterlife are all addressed, revealing the ideas that shaped aesthetic predilections and the choice of (self-)representation.
For a study of this kind, Kalaitzi's book is exemplary, offering a meticulously detailed presentation of 216 tombstones that have survived from ancient Macedonia. ... Kalaitzi has expended a tremendous amount ofeffort to study first-hand as many monumentsas possible, while at the same time informing herreaders of new discoveries or monuments that havenot yet been fully published.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Colour Plates
List of Black and White Photographs and Sketches of Catalogued Tombstones
Introduction
From Stone Effigies to the Aiane Sculptures
Figured Tombstones of the Fifth Century BC
Figured Tombstones of the Fourth Century BC
Figured Tombstones of the Third-First Centuries BC
Figured Tombstones in Context
Conclusions
Appendix: Excavations of Cemetaries in Macedonia
References
Catalogue of Figured Tombstones
Table of Concordances
Index of Museums
General Index
