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1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 309 pages)
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ISBN:
9781316676998
Content:
In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. Bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, Keesling grounds her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus' Histories and situates portrait representation within the context of contemporary debates about the nature of arete (excellence), the value of historical commemoration and the relationship between the human individual and the gods and heroes. She argues that often the goal of Classical portraiture was to link the individual to divine or heroic models. Offering an overview of the role of portraits in Archaic and Classical Greece, her study includes local histories of the development of Greek portraiture in sanctuaries such as Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis
Content:
Introduction: Why portraits? -- Part I. Portraits among Heroes and Gods -- 1. From votive statues to honorific portraits -- 2. Arete, heroism, and divine choice in early Greek portraiture -- 3. Portraits in Greek sanctuaries -- Part II. Documenting Archaic and Classical Greek History -- 4. Retrospective portraits as historical documents -- 5. Early Greek portraits under Roman rule : removal, renewal, reuse, and reinscription -- Conclusion: The limits of representation
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107162235
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316614730
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107162235
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781316676998
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