Author: Lauren Kinnee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351846574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural or architectural statement of power. The former, a product of the hoplite phalanx, disappeared from battlefields as the Macedonian cavalry grew in importance, shifting instead onto coins and into rhetoric, where it became a statement of military might. For their part, the Romans seem to have encountered the trophy as an icon on Syracusan coinage. Recognizing its value as a statement of territorial ownership, the Romans spent two centuries honing the trophy-concept into an empire-building tool, planted at key locations around the Mediterranean to assert Roman presence and dominance. This volume covers a ubiquitous but poorly understood phenomenon and will therefore be instructive to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in all fields of Classical Studies.
The Greek and Roman Trophy
Author: Lauren Kinnee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351846574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural or architectural statement of power. The former, a product of the hoplite phalanx, disappeared from battlefields as the Macedonian cavalry grew in importance, shifting instead onto coins and into rhetoric, where it became a statement of military might. For their part, the Romans seem to have encountered the trophy as an icon on Syracusan coinage. Recognizing its value as a statement of territorial ownership, the Romans spent two centuries honing the trophy-concept into an empire-building tool, planted at key locations around the Mediterranean to assert Roman presence and dominance. This volume covers a ubiquitous but poorly understood phenomenon and will therefore be instructive to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in all fields of Classical Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351846574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural or architectural statement of power. The former, a product of the hoplite phalanx, disappeared from battlefields as the Macedonian cavalry grew in importance, shifting instead onto coins and into rhetoric, where it became a statement of military might. For their part, the Romans seem to have encountered the trophy as an icon on Syracusan coinage. Recognizing its value as a statement of territorial ownership, the Romans spent two centuries honing the trophy-concept into an empire-building tool, planted at key locations around the Mediterranean to assert Roman presence and dominance. This volume covers a ubiquitous but poorly understood phenomenon and will therefore be instructive to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in all fields of Classical Studies.
A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Author: Henry Beauchamp Walters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
The Life of the Greeks and Romans
Author: Ernst Karl Guhl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
The Life of the Greeks and Romans Described from Antique Monuments
Author: E.K. Guhl
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1146675313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1146675313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life
Author: British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life" by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life" by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans Described from Antique Monuments
Empire of Images
Author: Alyson Roy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111326632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of Images explores the development of the Roman visual language of power in the Republic in Iberian Peninsula, the Gallic provinces, and Greece and Macedonia, centering the development of imperial imagery in overseas conquest. Drawing on a range of material evidence, this book argues that Roman imperial imagery developed through prolonged interaction with and adaptation by subjugated peoples. Despite their starring role in Roman imagery, the populations of Rome’s provinces continuously reinterpreted and reimagined Roman images of power to navigate their membership in the new imperial community, and in doing so, contributed to the creation of a universal visual language that continues to shape how Rome is understood.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111326632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of Images explores the development of the Roman visual language of power in the Republic in Iberian Peninsula, the Gallic provinces, and Greece and Macedonia, centering the development of imperial imagery in overseas conquest. Drawing on a range of material evidence, this book argues that Roman imperial imagery developed through prolonged interaction with and adaptation by subjugated peoples. Despite their starring role in Roman imagery, the populations of Rome’s provinces continuously reinterpreted and reimagined Roman images of power to navigate their membership in the new imperial community, and in doing so, contributed to the creation of a universal visual language that continues to shape how Rome is understood.
A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Author: William Smith
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 911
Book Description
Written by an English lexicographer, this book is a compact dictionary that can help guide readers in furthering their knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities. Even this smaller dictionary is more than 400-pages long; yet despite its shortness, it is not lacking in giving a precise explanation for each term presented.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 911
Book Description
Written by an English lexicographer, this book is a compact dictionary that can help guide readers in furthering their knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities. Even this smaller dictionary is more than 400-pages long; yet despite its shortness, it is not lacking in giving a precise explanation for each term presented.