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Statues and Cities - Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World (Hardcover, New)
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Statues and Cities - Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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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.
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