The Greek and Roman Trophy From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies Series
Auteur : Kinnee Lauren
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.
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
Lauren Kinnee is the Director of Art History and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA.
Date de parution : 08-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 03-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
Mots-clés :
Roman Trophies; Greek Trophies; Greek trophy; Caecilia Metella; Roman trophy; La Turbie; landscape trophy; Trophy Monuments; trophy tableau; Permanent Trophies; ancient Greek art; Hoplite Warfare; military art; Battlefield Marker; Roman art; Hoplite Phalanx; Roman adoption of Greek art; Tropaeum Traiani; war trophy; Lugdunum Convenarum; war commemoration; Spolia Opima; commemorative art; Architectural Trophy; Hoplite Tactics; Roman appropriation of Greek art; Gallia Narbonensis; Triumphal Procession; Victory Commemoration; Commemorative Function; Ancient Greece; Persian Wars; Scarecrow; Ancient Greco Roman World; Hellenica Oxyrhynchia; Hellenistic Sanctuary; Altar Court