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Statues and cities : honorific portraits and civic identity in the Hellenistic world /

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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 er...

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Main Author: Ma, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
Subjects:
Greece > Antiquities.
Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic.
City-states > Greece > History.
National characteristics in art.
Architectural inscriptions > Greece.
Monuments > Greece > History.
Grèce > Antiquités.
Sculpture de portraits héllénistique.
Cités-États > Grèce > Histoire.
Caractéristiques nationales dans l'art.
Inscriptions architecturales > Grèce.
Monuments.
Antiquities.
Architectural inscriptions.
City-states.
Greece.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 378 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and indexes.
ISBN:9780199668915
0199668914
9780191804755
0191804754