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Author Ma, John.

Title Statues and cities : honorific portraits and civic identity in the Hellenistic world / John Ma
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 378 pages)
Series Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
Contents I Statues and Stories -- 1 Towards a Grammar of Honours 15 -- 1 Image and Text 15 -- 2 Towards a Grammar of Honours 17 -- 3 The 'Dedicatory' Formula 24 -- 4 The Honorific Formula 31 -- 5 The Power of the Base 38 -- 2 The Politics of the Accusative 45 -- 1 In Search of Relationality 45 -- 2 Being Honoured 49 -- 3 Statues, Stories, Meanings 55 -- 4 Idealism and Ideology: The Honorific Statue within 'Civic Culture' 62 -- II Statues and Places -- 3 Statues in their Spaces 67 -- 1 Locating Honorific Statues 67 -- 2 Public Spaces and their Statues 70 -- 3 Civic Sites: From Typology to Grammar 75 -- 4 Priene, Pergamon, Athens 98 -- 5 Spatial Dynamics: The Civic Shrine 107 -- 6 Spatial Dynamics: The Epidaurian Asklepieion 108 -- 7 From Spatial Grammar to Spatial Discourses 109 -- Appendix: The Statue of Astydamas in the Theatre of Dionysos at Athens 110 -- 4 Statues in their Places 111 -- 1 Statuescapes in Practice 111 -- 2 On the Ground: Principles of Organization 113 -- 3 Singularity and Series 126 -- 4 Honorific Statues, Space, Place 130 -- 5 On the Ground: Sedimentation and Horizontal Stratigraphy 135 -- 6 Unity and Segmentation 148 -- 7 Civic Places and/as Civic Agents 150 -- III Statues and Families -- 5 The Shape of Private Monuments 155 -- 1 Noticing the Private Monument 155 -- 2 Reading the Private Monument 159 -- 3 Setting up a Private Statue: Occasions, Reasons, Motivations 168 -- 4 Seeing the Private Statue 187 -- 5 Placing the Private Honorific Monument 190 -- 6 Private, Public 193 -- 6 Public Spaces, Private Statues 195 -- 1 The Private Monument and the City 195 -- 2 A History of the Private Honorific Monument 196 -- 3 Making Families (Visible) 202 -- 4 Private and Public 212 -- 5 Family Monument, Public Monument 233 -- IV Statues as Images -- 7 Making an Honorific Portrait 243 -- 1 Political Work 243 -- 2 Artwork 249 -- 3 The Art Worlds of the Hellenistic Honorific Statue 257 -- Appendix: The Cost of Honorific Monuments 264 -- 8 Looking at an Honorific Portrait 267 -- 1 Types and Diversity 267 -- 2 Honorific Portraits in Context: Athens in the 280s 273 -- 3 Honorific Portraits in Context: Polybios in the Peloponnese 279 -- 4 Honorific Statues in Context: Priene and Delos c.120 284 -- 5 Private Honorific Portraits 286 -- 6 Contexts for Seeing 289
Summary Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialised fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of honorific 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and indexes
Subject Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic.
City-states -- Greece -- History
National characteristics in art.
Architectural inscriptions -- Greece
Monuments -- Greece -- History
Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic.
National characteristics in art.
Monuments.
Antiquities.
Architectural inscriptions.
City-states.
SUBJECT Greece -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
Subject Greece.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199668915
0199668914
9780191804755
0191804754