Statues and Cities
Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 June 2013
- ISBN 9780199668915
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 253x202x27 mm
- Weight 1082 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 73 in-text illustrations and plans 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong 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.
This book is well illustrated and contains 17 plans at the end. It is a very thorough look at what kinds of statues were set up, where, by whom, at what cost, and why. Recommended.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Plans
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Statues and Stories
Towards a Grammar of Honours
The Politics of the Accusative
Part II Statues and Places
Statues in their Spaces
Statues in their Places
Part III Statues and Families
The Shape of Private Monuments
Private Spaces, Private Statues
Part IV Statues as Images
Making an Honorific Portrait
Looking at an Honorific Portrait
Conclusion
Plans
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
