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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Main Author: Ma, John ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Edition:1. ed.
Series:Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
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Online Access:BSB01
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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.
Item Description:Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 378 S.) Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780191804755
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199668915.001.0001

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