Title: The Alexander Mosaic
First published: 1997
Description: The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Ada Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that characterize this literature.

In this study, she examines the Mosaic as it may have functioned in two different contexts, first as a Greek painting of the fourth century B.C., and then as a Roman mosaic of ca. 100 B.C. A variety of interpretive issues regarding history and art history are thus foregrounded, which have broader implications for the study of ancient monuments.
Subjects: Alexander mosaic (Pompeii), Art, Issus, Battle of, Turkey, 333 B.C., in art, Mosaic Pavements, Mosaics, Roman, Pavements, Mosaic, Roman Mosaics, Art, roman, Mosaics
Places: Italy, Pompeii (Extinct city)
People: Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C), Darius III King of Persia (d. 330 B.C)
LC classification: NA3770 .C58 1997