Kinnee The Greek and Roman Trophy

From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-84658-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

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
Preface
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: The Roman Adoption and Adaptation of the Greek Trophy
Chapter 7: Development and Dissemination of the Trophy Tableau
Chapter 8: The Landscape Trophy
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.