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FACES OF POWER Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
by Stewart, Andrew
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0520068513
- ISBN 13
- 9780520068513
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University of California Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0520068513 . Light edgewear and faint creasing to DJ. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 545 pages; 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 relief ware. 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 cliches 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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- Ancient World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33294
- Title
- FACES OF POWER Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
- Author
- Stewart, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0520068513
- ISBN 13
- 9780520068513
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Ewing, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0520068513, Alexander The Great, Political Science, Art And Architecture, Classical Greek & Roman, Greek History, Hellenistic Kingdoms
- Bookseller catalogs
- Political Science; Art & Architecture;
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