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The Greek and Roman Trophy - From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power (Paperback)
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The Greek and Roman Trophy - From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of
Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient
trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the
Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this
complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study
of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the
anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic
picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman
that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural
or architectural statement of power. The former, a product of the
hoplite phalanx, disappeared from battlefields as the Macedonian
cavalry grew in importance, shifting instead onto coins and into
rhetoric, where it became a statement of military might. For their
part, the Romans seem to have encountered the trophy as an icon on
Syracusan coinage. Recognizing its value as a statement of
territorial ownership, the Romans spent two centuries honing the
trophy-concept into an empire-building tool, planted at key
locations around the Mediterranean to assert Roman presence and
dominance. This volume covers a ubiquitous but poorly understood
phenomenon and will therefore be instructive to upper-level
undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in all fields of
Classical Studies.
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