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Author: Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1108488145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the visual and tactile experience of small-scale figurines, Greeks and Babylonians negotiated a hybrid, cross-cultural society in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.
Author: Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108738460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The scaled-down quality of figurines encouraged both visual and tactile engagement, enabling them to effectively work as non-threatening instruments of cultural blending. Reconstructing the embodied experience of miniaturization in detailed case studies, Langin-Hooper illuminates the dynamic process of combining Greek and Babylonian sculpture forms, social customs, and viewing habits into new, hybrid works of art. Her innovative focus on figurines as instruments of both personal encounter and global cultural shifts has important implications for the study of tiny objects in art history, anthropology, classics, and other disciplines.
Author: Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-12
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ISBN-13: 1108848303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The scaled-down quality of figurines encouraged both visual and tactile engagement, enabling them to effectively work as non-threatening instruments of cultural blending. Reconstructing the embodied experience of miniaturization in detailed case studies, Langin-Hooper illuminates the dynamic process of combining Greek and Babylonian sculpture forms, social customs, and viewing habits into new, hybrid works of art. Her innovative focus on figurines as instruments of both personal encounter and global cultural shifts has important implications for the study of tiny objects in art history, anthropology, classics, and other disciplines.
Author: Kathryn Stevens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1108419550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.
Author: Lauren Ristvet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1107065216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East. She draws on a wide range of archaeological, iconographic, and cuneiform sources to show how ritual performance was not set apart from the real practice of politics; it was politics. Rituals provided an opportunity for elites and ordinary people to negotiate political authority. Descriptions of rituals from three periods explore the networks of signification that informed different societies. From circa 2600 to 2200 BC, pilgrimage made kingdoms out of previously isolated villages. Similarly, from circa 1900 to 1700 BC, commemorative ceremonies legitimated new political dynasties by connecting them to a shared past. Finally, in the Hellenistic period, the traditional Babylonian Akitu festival was an occasion for Greek-speaking kings to show that they were Babylonian and for Babylonian priests to gain significant power.
Author: Thorsten Fögen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-08-21
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 3110545624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together in a certain setting, context or environment – wittingly or unwittingly. Papers explore the concrete categories of interaction between animals and humans that can be identified, in what contexts they occur, and what types of evidence can be productively used to examine the concept of interactions. Articles in this volume take into account literary, visual, and other types of evidence. A comprehensive research bibliography is also provided.
Author: Nigel Spivey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0521760313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the social function and aesthetic achievement of Greek sculpture from c.750 BC to the end of antiquity.
Author: Brian A. Brown
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-12-13
Total Pages: 842
ISBN-13: 1614510350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.
Author: M. J. Versluys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1107141974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new interpretation of Nemrud Dağ, a key Hellenistic monument which encompasses both Greek and Persian elements.
Author: Roland Oetjen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 913
ISBN-13: 3110388553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of the Seleucid Empire. The reader will gain an international perspective on current research.
