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Statues and Cities - Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R5,084
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Statues and Cities - Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World (Hardcover, New): John Ma

Statues and Cities - Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World (Hardcover, New)

John Ma

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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
Release date: June 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: John Ma
Dimensions: 253 x 202 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 406
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-966891-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
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LSN: 0-19-966891-4
Barcode: 9780199668915

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