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Item Number: 122442
Title: Imitatio Alexandri in the Hellenistic Art
Author: Trofimova Anna
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788882657536
Description: Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 192pp. illus. English text. Summary: For the first time in Classical studies, the author of this monographic research investigates the influence of Alexander the Great portraiture upon iconography of heroes and deities in the Hellenistic art. Historiography of Alexanders portraits and the problem of imitation are under consideration, the principal mythological characters that underwent the impact of Alexanders iconography being precisely studied - Achilles, Heracles, Dionysus, Helios, the Giants, and water deities. The author comes to a conclusion: Imitatio Alexandri was a natural stage in the development of Hellenistic artistic parlance. Imitation of Alexanders appearance embodied several key concepts: invincible, defender of the Greeks, king of the East, conqueror of Asia, liberator, founder of cities, king, or simply the finest of the Hellenes. It was in the Hellenistic time - the final and the turning phase in the history of Classical artistic tradition - that the new myth-eidos found its mode of expression in mythological models simultaneously with the consolidation of new values and concepts. Contents: chapter I, The History of the Study of Portraits of Alexander the Great and the subject of imitations Chapter II, Alexander the Great in Hellenistic Art. The Image and the Reality; Chapter III, The Influence of Portraits of Alexander on the Hellenistic Iconography of Achilles; Chapter IV, Alexander in the guise of Heracles and Heracles in the guise of Alexander; Cpter V, The evolution of the iconography of Dionysus and the myth of Alexander; Chapter VI, The Royal Image and Deities of the Heavenly Sphere in Hellenistic art Alexander and Helios, Apollo and the Dioscuri chapter VII, Alexander and the Giants of the Pergamon Frieze; Chapter VIII, The Alexander Type in the Hellenistic Iconography of Water Deities. (Studia Archaeologica, 187)
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