Portraits of the Ptolemies
Subtitle: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780292777729
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Political leaders & leadership; Classic Art; Art; Sociology; Ancient Egypt; General; History - General; Sculpture; Art / History / General; Ptolemaic dynasty; 305-30 B.C; 305-30 B.C.; Egypt; Portrait sculpture, Egyptian; Portraits; Portraits, Hellenistic; Ptolemaic dynasty,; Themes, motives
Description: "In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies. Examining one hundred and fifty sculptures from the vantage points of literary evidence, archaeology, history, religion, and stylistic development, he fully explores how they meld Egyptian and Greek cultural traditions and evoke surrounding social developments and political events.

To do this, he develops a "visual vocabulary" for reading royal portraiture and discusses how the portraits helped legitimate the Ptolemies and advance their ideology. Stanwick also sheds new light on the chronology of the sculptures, giving dates to many previously undated ones and showing that others belong outside the Ptolemaic period."--BOOK JACKET.