Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
by Andrew Stewart
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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 reliefware. 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 show more purpose-actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted clichés 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." show lessTags
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- Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
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- Alexander III the Great, 326-253 BC
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- Nonfiction, History, Art & Design, Politics and Government
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- 938.07 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Macedonian Supremacy (362-323 BC)
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- DF234.2 .S74 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Greece History of Greece History By period Alexander the Great, 336-323 B.C.
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