Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics

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University of California Press, 1993 - 507 pagine
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–on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images?

Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits—wildly divergent in character, quality, type, provenance, date, and purpose—actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted clichés that mobilize the notion "Alexander" for diverse ends and diverse audiences. Stewart discusses the portraits as studies in power and his original interpretation of them gives unprecedented fullness and shape to the idea and image called "Alexander."
 

Sommario

Introduction
1
Texts
9
Testimonia
21
Images
42
Survivors 42 2 Synthesis 52 3 Approaches
56
An Encounter
73
A Meeting in Kilikia 71 2 Personal
86
God Invincible?
95
A Regional Hegemony? 229 2 Alexandreion
243
Alexandrian Carnival 252 5 Alexanders Image
260
Alexander and Victory 263 2 Crusade
270
Kassandros to Gonatas
277
Asian Figurehead
290
Two Vassals 290 2 The Cities of Asia
307
Resurrections
325
Alexanders Personal Appearance
341

Masks of Youth
105
Youth and Rejuvenation 105 2 Attic
121
Charges to Remember
139
Spearwon Land
158
Chameleon King
171
On Loan from Olympos
213
Imperial Egypt
229
Cults of Alexander
419
A Catalogue
438
Hephaistion
453
Bibliography
471
Index
493
Copyright

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Andrew Stewart is Professor of Greek and Roman Art at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (1990).

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