Statues and Cities

Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-873893-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ma, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Hilfswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- List of Illustrations

- List of Plans

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Part I Statues and stories

- 1: Towards a Grammar of Honours

- 2: The Politics of the Accusative

- Part II Statues and Places

- 3: Statues in their Spaces

- 4: Statues in their Places

- Part III Statues and Families

- 5: The Shape of Private Monuments

- 6: Private Spaces, Private Statues

- Part IV Statues as Images

- 7: Making an Honorific Portrait

- 8: Looking at an Honorific Portrait

- Conclusion

- Plans

- Bibliography

- Index Locorum

- General Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Ma is a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. A former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he has taught at Princeton and has held visiting appointments in Paris. He is interested in ancient history, especially Greek, and archaeology.