The Greek and Roman Trophy

From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-59219-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Reihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history, philology, the history of warfare, and the anthropology of religion and magic. Ultimately, the kaleidoscopic picture that emerges is of an ad hoc anthropomorphic Greek talisman that gradually developed into a sophisticated, Augustan sculptural or architectural statement of power. The former, a product of the hoplite phalanx, disappeared from battlefields as the Macedonian cavalry grew in importance, shifting instead onto coins and into rhetoric, where it became a statement of military might. For their part, the Romans seem to have encountered the trophy as an icon on Syracusan coinage. Recognizing its value as a statement of territorial ownership, the Romans spent two centuries honing the trophy-concept into an empire-building tool, planted at key locations around the Mediterranean to assert Roman presence and dominance.

This volume covers a ubiquitous but poorly understood phenomenon and will therefore be instructive to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in all fields of Classical Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinnee, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Grappling with definitions, Chapter 3: Repairing fractured perspectives, Chapter 4: The Greek trophy: written sources, Chapter 5: Visual evidence and the history of the Greek trophy, Chapter 6: Roman adoption and adaptation of the Greek trophy, Chapter 7: Development and dissemination of the 'trophy tableau', Chapter 8: Development of the landscape trophy in the Republic and under Augustus, Chapter 9: Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Kinnee is the Director of Art History and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA.