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Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World

Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World

Ma, John

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation

ArchaeologyAncient GreeceSculpture & Installation

ISBN10: 0199668914
ISBN13: 9780199668915
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 24 2013
Pages: 406
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.60 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
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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