Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World - Nemrud Dag and Commagene Under Antiochos I

Informationen zum Autor Miguel John Versluys is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. His research focuses on cultural dynamics in Eurasia in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. He is the author of Aegyptiaca Romana: Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views of Egypt (2002), and the editor of Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture (Cambridge, 2015) and Persianism in Antiquity (2016). Klappentext A new interpretation of Nemrud Dag, a key Hellenistic monument which encompasses both Greek and Persian elements. Zusammenfassung This book provides a new interpretation of Nemrud Dag! a key Hellenistic monument with both Greek and Persian elements. It develops a novel approach to understanding relations between visual style and constructing identity in antiquity! and will be important for those interested in cultural dynamics! dynastic propaganda and ancient globalisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Approaching Nemrud Dä 2. Commagene: a historical geography; 3. Identity; 4. Style; 5. Postscript: between East and West?; Appendix. Antiochos' nomos: translation.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Miguel John Versluys, Miguel John (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden Versluys, Versluys Miguel John
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107141971
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14197-1
• Seiten: 332
• Serien: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Memorials, monuments, BCE period – Protohistory, Persian Empire, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings