Hellenistic Royal Portraits

Zusatztext 'This important book not only provides a critical and comprehensive treatment of Hellenistic royal portraits based on sculptures and coins, but most significantly, asks 'what were royal portraits for and what did they mean to the people who saw them?' ... the enormous intellectual achievement ... Each page presents a wealth of information to which scholars will return again and again. Not the least value of this book rests in its fundamental questioning of the assumptions which we bring to the study of Hellenistic and Roman portraiture.'Lori-Ann Touchette, Johns Hopkins University, The Republic Zusammenfassung Hellenistic royal portraits survive on coins and in sculpture. Further statues have been discovered in literature and inscriptions of the period. This work collects together the major extant portraits and uses the documentary evidence to evaluate their context, meaning, purpose and broad history.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: R. R. R. Smith, R.r.r. Smith
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 22.12.1988
• EAN: 9780198132240
• ISBN: 978-0-19-813224-0
• Pages: 216
• Thèmes: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Préhistoire, protohistoire, Antiquité; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology