FACES OF POWER Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

University of California Press, 1994

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Year of publication

1994

Author

Stewart, Andrew

Publishers

University of California Press

Keyword

Alexander The Great Political Science Art And Architecture, Classical Greek & Roman Greek History Hellenistic Kingdoms

Cover description

Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0520068513

Description

Light edgewear and faint creasing to DJ. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 545 pages; 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 relief ware. 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 purpose actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted cliches 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."