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Early Greek Portraiture Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

Early Greek Portraiture By Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

Early Greek Portraiture by Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

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This synthesis of Archaic and Classical Greek portraiture surveys the origins and development of portrait sculpture at major sites including Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. Portraits are discussed in relation to historical events including the Persian Wars and canonical texts such as Herodotus' Histories.

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Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories by Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. Bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, Keesling grounds her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus' Histories and situates portrait representation within the context of contemporary debates about the nature of arete (excellence), the value of historical commemoration and the relationship between the human individual and the gods and heroes. She argues that often the goal of Classical portraiture was to link the individual to divine or heroic models. Offering an overview of the role of portraits in Archaic and Classical Greece, her study includes local histories of the development of Greek portraiture in sanctuaries such as Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis.

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'The first four chapters of this excellent scholarly study focus primarily on Greek portrait images, their origins, meaning, and various contexts from the Archaic to the late classical periods (sixthfourth centuries BCE). The last chapter deals with the Hellenistic period down to the Roman conquest of Greece, a time when new portraits of contemporary Greeks were set up in various locations, and a number of old Greek sculptural images were removed to Italy by the Romans, or were reused in Greece by local authorities to represent Roman personages (especially prominent military men and statesmen) by providing them with new identifying inscriptions on their bases. Throughout the book Keesling makes excellent use of ancient primary sources, including dedicatory inscriptions and their significance for understanding the social, political, and religious contexts in which these images were set up. Two appendixes list, and provide pertinent information about, known portrait statues set up (c. 600300 BCE) at the religious sanctuaries of Olympia and Delphi.' Choice

About Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

Catherine M. Keesling is Associate Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge, 2003), as well as journal articles and book chapters on Greek sculpture of the Archaic and Classical periods and its reception, Greek epigraphy and commemorative monuments.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Why portraits?; Part I. Portraits among Heroes and Gods: 1. From votive statues to honorific portraits; 2. Arete, heroism, and divine choice in early Greek portraiture; 3. Portraits in Greek sanctuaries; Part II. Documenting Archaic and Classical Greek History: 4. Retrospective portraits as historical documents; 5. Early Greek portraits under Roman rule: removal, renewal, reuse, and reinscription; Conclusion: The limits of representation.

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Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories by Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Catherine M. Keesling (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
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Cambridge University Press
2017-05-03
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