Visual Histories of the Classical World Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith

Studies in Classical Archaeology (SCA 4) Visual Histories of the Classical World Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith C. M. Draycott, R. Raja, K. Welch, W. T. Wootton (eds.) XLII+549 p., 94 b/w ill. + 271 colour ill., 216 x 280 mm, 2018 ISBN: 978-2-503-57632-9 Languages: English, French, German Paperback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 425,00 Professor R.R.R. Smith is one of the foremost scholars in the study of Classical art, or more broadly, ?visual culture?, pioneering research that examines not only the details of images and objects themselves, but also their contexts and underlying conceptual frameworks. Key to his approach is a focus on social identity: by exploring the people who commissioned, produced, and consumed ancient art, he has offered important insights into what this can tell us about how people lived, and how they perceived themselves and were seen by others. This volume, produced on the occasion of R.R.R. Smith?s 65th birthday, draws together essays from a distinguished group of researchers who have been inspired by Smith?s work and its value for reconstructing ancient social and cultural history. The papers gathered here consider various aspects of art and architecture in the classical world, engaging directly with R.R.R. Smith?s own research, and at the same time celebrating his enormous contribution to scholarship. Table of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Approaches, Methods and Materials Robin Osborne, A World of Choice: Taking Archaic Greek Diversity Seriously Catherine M. Draycott, Art History and Achaemenid History: Or, What You Can Get out of the Back End of a Bull Caspar Meyer, What is the Value of Images? On the Significance of Time Spent Looking at Classical Art Peter Stewart, Ancient Greek Artists and Texts: Loss and Re-Creation Thomas Mannack, Two New Lekythoi and Two ?Ghosts? Rune Frederiksen, A Short History of the Depiction of Plaster Casts in the Scholarly Literature on Ancient Sculpture Royal Representations Christoph Bachhuber, The Lion Pit and Other Ambiguous Violence against Statues at Iron-Age Zincirli Stephan Faust, Alexander's Hearse and the Alexander Sarcophagus: Power Politics and Commemoration in a Changing World Emma Libonati, An Ambiguous Identification: The Diorite Statue in Diaphanous Drapery from Canopus Milena Melfi, A Cast, a Bird, and a Queen (?) Reconstructing Hellenistic Imagery Sheila Dillon, Portrait Statues in the City Eleusinion in Athens Olympia Bobou, Apollo?s Children: Five Statues from Delphi John Ma, Seeing the Invisible Kenneth Lapatin, A Puzzling Pachyderm Roman Imperial Representations Katharina Lorenz, Writing Histories from Roman Imperial Portraiture: The Case of the Julio-Claudian Princes Chris Hallett, Terracotta, Antiquarianism, and the ?Archaic Revival? of Early Augustan Rome Klaus Fittschen, Zum Bildnis des Kaisers Claudius in Braunschweig Katherine Welch, Neropolis Paul Zanker, Zu einer neuen Bildnisbüste des Kaisers Domitian in Toledo Social and Cultural Identities in Sculpture Bjorn Ewald, Minding the Gap: Issues of Transmission and Cultural Translation in Graeco-Roman Art Mantha Zarmakoupi, The Statue Monument of C. Billienus in the Stoa of Antigonos Gonatas on Delos Ben Russell, SimulacraGentium[Africanarum] Rubina Raja, Stacking Aesthetics in the Syrian Desert. Displaying Palmyrene Sculpture in the Public and Funerary Sphere Constructed Cities Andrew Stewart, Notes on the Origins and Early Development of the ?Agora of the Kerameikos? Margareta Steinby, The Resgestae of Q. Haterius Q. L. Tychicus, Redemptor Barbara Borg - codice articolo 012306 - Language : German english and french text