ISBN : 9780199668915
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.
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF PLANS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I STATUES AND STORIES
PART II STATUES AND PLACES
PART III STATUES AND FAMILIES
PART IV STATUES AS IMAGES
CONCLUSION
PLANS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX LOCORUM
GENERAL INDEX