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Sculpture - The Assemblage from the Theater (Hardcover, Volume Ix Part 3 Ed.)
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Sculpture - The Assemblage from the Theater (Hardcover, Volume Ix Part 3 Ed.)
Series: Corinth, 9.3
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At the time of its creation in the Hadrianic period, the Corinth
Theater presented the most elaborate form of Roman theater
architecture to date; a three-storied columnar facade made of
multicolored marble. The polychrome architecture did not stand
alone, for the scaenae frons was also impressively embellished with
painted marble reliefs beneath the columns, with painted statuary
between the columns and in the niches, and with painted busts in
the pediments. This blaze of color would have conveyed many
different messages to ancient audiences since the sculptural
complex evoked the Theater's political, religious, and cultural
function as well as the self-identification of the city. A colossal
seated portrait of the deified emperor Trajan dominated the
display, surrounded by other members of the Roman imperial family.
However the depiction of Gigantomachy, Amazonomachy, and Herakles
scenes on podia and the Greek character of other sculptures around
the building made a conscious link to indigenous culture. As the
author's reconstruction shows, the entire assemblage, arranged in
thematic segments, would have attempted to resolve in symbolic form
the real cultural negotiation at the heart of Roman Corinth. This
book presents in detail the freestanding sculptures, assembled from
fragmentary remains, and reveals an additional group of
architectural sculptures as well as figures in niches and between
columns. With Corinth IX.2 it completes the publication of
sculptures excavated from the theater by the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens. Drawing on over 30 years of study, the
author also presents her ideas about sculptural decoration in the
Corinth theater and throughout the Roman East. Using epigraphical
as well as architectural evidence she explores questions of
dedication and patronage to shed important new light on the social
role of Roman theater, a forum for far more than just
entertainment.
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