Hellenistic Royal Portraits

ISBN-13: 9780198132240 / Angielski

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Opis

Alexander and the Hellenistic kings brought a distinctive form of kingship to Greece and the East that was powerfully expressed in artistic images of the ruler. Analyzing surviving portraits on coins and in sculpture, and setting these in the wider political context of the period, this study offers a historical interpretation of the royal image from Alexander to Cleopatra.

Recenzje

'This important book not only provides a critical and comprehensive treatment of Hellenistic royal portraits based on sculptures and coins, but most significantly, asks 'what were royal portraits for and what did they mean to the people who saw them?' ... the enormous intellectual achievement ... Each page presents a wealth of information to which scholars will return again and again. Not the least value of this book rests in its fundamental questioning of the assumptions which we bring to the study of Hellenistic and Roman portraiture.' Lori-Ann Touchette, Johns Hopkins University, The Republic