TY - BOOK ID - 85167244 TI - Early Greek portraiture : monuments and histories PY - 2017 SN - 1108216676 1108207227 1108215327 1316614735 1316676994 1108218024 1108219373 1108224776 1107162238 1108223427 9781108224772 9781108223423 9781316676998 9781107162235 9781316614730 9781316614730 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Portrait sculpture, Greek. KW - Portrait sculpture, Ancient KW - Portraits KW - Monuments KW - Excellence KW - Gods, Greek KW - Heroes KW - Greek portrait sculpture KW - Heroism KW - Persons KW - Antiheroes KW - Apotheosis KW - Courage KW - Greek gods KW - Excellency KW - Virtues KW - Perfection KW - Historical monuments KW - Architecture KW - Sculpture KW - Historic sites KW - Memorials KW - Public sculpture KW - Statues KW - Portraiture KW - Art KW - Biography KW - Pictures KW - Ancient portrait sculpture KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Greece KW - Antiquities. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85167244 AB - In this book, Catherine M. Keesling lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, she demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. Bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, Keesling grounds her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus' Histories and situates portrait representation within the context of contemporary debates about the nature of arete (excellence), the value of historical commemoration and the relationship between the human individual and the gods and heroes. She argues that often the goal of Classical portraiture was to link the individual to divine or heroic models. Offering an overview of the role of portraits in Archaic and Classical Greece, her study includes local histories of the development of Greek portraiture in sanctuaries such as Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. ER -