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

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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Bibliographic Details
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

by Ma, John
Published 2013

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