Faces of power : Alexander's image and Hellenistic politics /

Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images? Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits actually transmit not so much a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stewart, Andrew F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1993.
Colección:Hellenistic culture and society ; 11.
Temas:
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Art.
Alexandre, > le Grand, > 356-323 av. J.-C > Art.
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C
Alexandre > III > (roi de Macédoine ; > 0356-0323 av. J.-C.) > Dans l'art.
To 146 B.C.
Portraits, Hellenistic.
Portraits hellénistiques.
HISTORY > Ancient.
Politics and government
Portretten.
Beeldvorming.
Propaganda.
Art grec.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Grèce > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Greece.
Art.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Approaching Alexander. 1. Texts. 1. Histories. 2. The Portraits: Testimonia. 2. Images. 1. Survivors. 2. Synthesis. 3. Approaches. 3. Alexander: An Encounter. 1. A Meeting in Kilikia. 2. Personal. 3. New Achilles. 4. King Alexander. 5. God Invincible?
  • II. King and Conqueror. 4. Masks of Youth. 1. Youth and Rejuvenation. 2. Attic and Lysippic. 3. Progeny. 4. King and Polis. 5. Charges to Remember. 1. In Memoriam. 2. The Alexander Mosaic: A Reading. 3. Apulian Echoes. 6. Spear-won Land. 1. Unifying Images. 2. Alexander Doryphoros. 3. Chameleon King. 4. Make War, Not Love. 7. On Loan from Olympos. 1. A Revocable Gift. 2. The Heritage of Apelles. 3. Enigma in Malibu. 4. Death and Transfiguration
  • III. Survivors and Successors. 8. Imperial Egypt. 1. A Regional Hegemony? 2. Alexandreion Ptolemaiou. 3. Blessed Patron, Blessed City. 4. Alexandrian Carnival. 5. Alexander's Image and Ptolemaic Policy. 9. Images of Insecurity. 1. "Alexander and Victory" 2. Crusade in Africa. 3. A Soldier's Return. 4. Macedonia and Greece: Kassandros to Gonatas. 10. Asian Figurehead. 1. Two Vassals. 2. The Cities of Asia. 3. Antigonos, Demetrios, Seleukos, and Lysimachos
  • Epilogue: Resurrections
  • App. 1. Alexander's Personal Appearance
  • App. 2. The Hellenistic and Roman Republican Portraits: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia
  • App. 3. Cults of Alexander
  • App. 4. Preserved Alexander Portraits Discussed in the Text
  • App. 5. The Getty Fragments: A Catalogue
  • App. 6. Hephaistion
  • App. 7. Alexander and the Successors: A Chronology (336-275 B.C.).

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