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Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic
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Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by John Ma


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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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  • Title Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
  • Author John Ma
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, 2013. 406p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation. This book is well illustrated and contains
  • Date 2013-08-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780199668915 / 0199668914
  • Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 7.6 x 1.1 in (24.64 x 19.30 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
  • Library of Congress subjects Greece - Antiquities, City-states - Greece - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012277722
  • Dewey Decimal Code 733.3

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About the author


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.
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