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Early Greek Portraiture - Monuments and Histories (Hardcover)
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Early Greek Portraiture - Monuments and Histories (Hardcover)
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In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the
origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the
fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives
and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture,
she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in
Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history.
Bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, Keesling
grounds her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus'
Histories and situates portrait representation within the context
of contemporary debates about the nature of arete (excellence), the
value of historical commemoration and the relationship between the
human individual and the gods and heroes. She argues that often the
goal of Classical portraiture was to link the individual to divine
or heroic models. Offering an overview of the role of portraits in
Archaic and Classical Greece, her study includes local histories of
the development of Greek portraiture in sanctuaries such as
Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis.
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