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Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC (Hardcover)
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Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
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Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC brings
together for the first time a substantial body of material from
ancient Macedonia, comprising stone funerary monuments, be they
statues, stelai, or reliefs, which feature figured representations.
The volume's geographical focus encompasses what can be referred to
as the national territory of the ancient Macedonians, as
established largely from the reign of Philip II until the last
Antigonids, and extending from the range of Mount Pindos and Lake
Lychnitis in the west as far as the Strymon valley and Mount
Pangaion in the east. Its broad chronological scope stretches back
to prehistoric times, when stone funerary monuments seem to have
first appeared in the area, and into the first century AD, when
significant changes in the modes which shaped (self-)
representation in a funerary context can be traced. However, the
volume takes as its main focus the Classical and Hellenistic
periods, describing and unravelling the codes which moulded the
representation of the dead on tombstones dating from the fifth to
the first century BC. Paying close attention to the wealth of
information that can be gained through morphological, typological,
iconographical, and epigraphic analysis, the volume goes beyond
artistic evaluation to consider social history: social and gender
roles, social status, cultural identity, regionalism or consciously
constructed cosmopolitanism, shifts in religious behaviour, and
attitudes towards death and a possible afterlife are all addressed,
revealing the ideas that shaped aesthetic predilections and the
choice of (self-)representation.
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