Statues and cities : honorific portraits and civic identity in the Hellenistic world
Ma, JohnAuthor
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic
City-states
National characteristics in art
Architectural inscriptions
Monuments
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Greece