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Faces of Power : Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics

by: Stewart, A.

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Category: Hellenistic Culture and Society
Code: 11066
ISBN-13: 9780520068513 / 978-0-520-06851-3
ISBN-10: 0520068513 / 0-520-06851-3
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: Berkeley
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 545
Book Condition: New
Comments: Hellenistic Culture and Society, 11 / xxxvii, 507 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

About the Book
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."

About the Author
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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Faces of Power : Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics

by: Stewart, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9780520068513 / 978-0-520-06851-3
  • ISBN-03: 0520068513 / 0-520-06851-3
  • University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994

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