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Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

By Andrew Stewart

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0520068513, 9780520068513
LCC
DF234.2 .S74 1993
Open Library ID
OL1708617M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
11 MB (11033334 bytes)
Series
HELLENISTIC CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Pages
610\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 clich?s 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."

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