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The long lives of Roman statues: Public monuments in late antique Aphrodisias

2017
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Sculpture in Roman Asia Proceedings of the International Conference at Selçuk 2013

Aphrodisias

2016
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The Last Statues of Antiquity
Richly illustrated, the volume is the definitive resource for studying the phenomenon of late-antique statues. The collection also incorporates extensive references to the project's database, which is freely accessible online.
Statues

Statue Practice in the late Roman Empire: Numbers, Costumes, and Style

2016
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Chapter
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The Last Statues of Antiquity
Richly illustrated, the volume is the definitive resource for studying the phenomenon of late-antique statues. The collection also incorporates extensive references to the project's database, which is freely accessible online.
Statues

The Last Statues of Antiquity

2016
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Book

Aphrodisias Papers Excavation and research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012

2016
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Book
25 chapters by different authors on the Tetrapylon Street, "South Agora", North Agora, Hadrianic Baths, Atrium House, Basilica, Quarries, Anastylosis, Statues, Sarcophagi, Inscriptions, Jewelry
Aphrodisias (Extinct city)

The Greek East under Rome

2015
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A Companion to Roman Art

Troilos and Achilles: A Monumental Statue Group from Aphrodisias

2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies A remarkable blue-grey marble horse with a white marble rider, found in the Basilica at Aphrodisias, has been a focus of recent research. The article describes the archaeology and history of the monument — how it can be reconstructed, with its base and in its precise setting in the Basilica. The group was a daring composition that had already fallen and been restored once in antiquity. What emerges is firstly a new full-size hellenistic-style statue group whose subject can be identified as Troilos and Achilles, and secondly a striking example of the long second lives of classical statues in Late Antiquity. The horse was a great public monument of the early imperial period that was moved to the Basilica probably in the mid-fourth century a.d., where it has a well-documented context. The subject of the group can be identified both from epigraphy and from its iconographic antecedents, and its version of the subject can be related to a particular strand in the rich later literary representations of the story. <sup>1</sup>

Eikōn chalkē: Hellenistic statue honours in bronze

2015
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Power and Pathos Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly ...
Art

Citizens and kings in the Tomba Bella at Hierapolis - ILARIA ROMEO, DARIO PANARITI, ROSANGELA UNGARO, LA TOMBA BELLA. UN HEROON GIULIO-CLAUDIO E IL SUO SARCOFAGO (Hierapolis di Frigia VI; Missione Archeologica...

2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Gods in Colour A Guide to the Exhibition

2015
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Book
Polychromy

The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum Catalogue of Plaster Casts of Greek and Roman Sculpture

2013
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Book
The collection has recently been re-displayed and integrated.
Art

The Marble Reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion

2013
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Book
Antiquities

Preface

2012
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Book

Defacing the Gods at Aphrodisias

2012
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

2012
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Book

Introduction

2012
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Book

Gods of Nemrud : the royal sanctuary of Antiochos I & the kingdom of Commagene

2012
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Book
Arsameia ad Nymphaios (Extinct city)

The second lives of classical monuments at Aphrodisias

2012
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Klasikē paradosē kai neōterika stoicheia stēn plastikē tes rōmaikēs Elladas

(N.D.) Cahill Ed. Love for Lydia: a Sardis Anniversary Volume Presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis 4). Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 249, illus. $50. 9780674031951.

2011
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Marble workshops at Aphrodisias

2011
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Chapter
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Roman sculpture in Asia Minor

A Fayum teacher's manual, Alexandrian pavilion architecture, and Augustan wallpainting

2010
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Samothracian connections : essays in honor of James R. McCredie

Reception and Ancient Portraits

2010
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Chapter
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The classical tradition

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 2002–2005

2008
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Aphrodisias papers New research on the city and its monuments

2008
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Book
History

Aphrodisias: City and Sculpture in Roman Asia

2008
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Book

Aphrodisias'tan Roma Portreleri

2008
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Book

Roman portraits and marble production at Aphrodisias

2008
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Aphrodisias'tan Roma portreleri

Sarcophagi and Roman citizenship

2008
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Aphrodisias papers. 4. New research on the city and its monuments

Sculptors' workshops: Inscriptions, images, and archaeology

2008
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Chapter
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Aphrodisias'tan Roma portreleri

Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit

2007
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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals : from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600. Local context and historical meaning

2007
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Statuen in der Spätantike

The use of images: visual history and ancient history

2006
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Classics in Progress
<p>This chapter explores the visual aspect, a territory shared with archaeology and art history. The Greek and Roman world poured an astonishing amount of its surplus into expensive monuments and elaborate public images, and their study is naturally an important part of classical archaeology. Unlike many other archaeologies, this subject studies a world extremely well documented by abundant and diverse literary and textual evidence, and it is thus part of the wider classics project. The discussion explores some of the great gains made by recent work in this area and some of the remaining deficiencies. Gains have resulted from application of historically based questions, while deficiencies arise from the still largely untheorised nature of this subject's research and discourse.</p>

Roman portrait statuary from Aphrodisias

2006
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Book
Art

Archaeological research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1999-2001

2004
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology
Survey, documentation, and excavation projects carried out at Aphrodisias between 1999 and 2001 focused on the study of the city plan, and on the City Wall, the Stadium, the North Agora, the Bouleuterion, the Bishop's Palace, and the Basilica. Research outside the city consisted of limited excavation in three areas just northeast of the City Wall, and a brief survey of known extramural tombs and other structures. Site conservation projects included the beginning of a long-term program for the conservation of the Bouleuterion and a series of emergency repairs to the walls of the Stadium. Sculpture conservation projects continued with trial restorations of two of the Sebasteion reliefs, and the restoration and installation in the Aphrodisias Museum of two portrait statues of boxers found in the Theater in the 1970s. New finds of sculpture include seven sarcophagi from the southeast necropolis and an important Late Antique portrait head. This head belongs to the chlamydatus statue of the governor Oecumenius (ca. A.D. 400) excavated in 1965 in the north stoa of the North Agora together with its inscribed base.

The Statue Monument of Oecumenius: A New Portrait of a Late Antique Governor from Aphrodisias

2002
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
<jats:p>Ancient portraits are best interpreted with their busts or statue bodies and in the contexts in which they were set up and experienced, but such fully preserved monuments are not common. This article is the first publication of a new late antique portrait from Aphrodisias in Caria that has a statue body, an inscribed base, and a precise ancient setting. It was set up in honour of a provincial governor named Oecumenius, and his chlamydatus statue is now the most complete example around which others of this characteristic type of late antique statue can be understood. The monument also has wider connections outside Aphrodisias and raises interesting problems of historical interpretation in the period around <jats:sc>a.d.</jats:sc> 400.</jats:p>

A portrait monument for Julian and Theodosius at Aphrodisias

2001
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Griechenland in der Kaiserzeit: Neue Funde und Forschungen zu Skulptur, Architektur und Topographie ; Kolloquium zum sechszigsten Geburtstag von Prof. Dietrich Willers, Bern, 12-13 Juni 1998

Sculptured for Eternity: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum

2001
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Book

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1997 and 1998

2000
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Art Theory and Criticism in Antiquity

2000
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The Oxford history of western art

Herakles and Antaios at Aphrodisias in Caria

2000
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Periplous : papers on classical art and archaeology presented to Sir John Boardman

Nero and the Sun-god: divine accessories and political symbols in Roman imperial images - M. BERGMANN, DIE STRAHLEN DER HERRSCHER: THEOMORPHES HERRSCHERBILD UND POLITISCHE SYMBOLIK IM HELLENISMUS UND IN DER R?...

2000
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Late Antique Portraits in a Public Context: Honorific Statuary at Aphrodisias in Caria, A.D. 300–600

1999
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Journal of Roman Studies

A late Roman portrait and a himation statue from Aphrodisias

1999
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100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos : Akten des Symposions Wien 1995

Cultural Choice and Political Identity in Honorific Portrait Statues in the Greek East in the Second Century A.D.

1998
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1996

1998
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Hellenistic Sculpture under the Roman Empire: Fishermen and Satyrs at Aphrodisias

1998
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Chapter
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Regional Schools in Hellenistic Sculpture
Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.
Art

The Public Image of Licinius I: Portrait Sculpture and Imperial Ideology in the Early Fourth Century

1997
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
<jats:p>Ancient history, it could be said, is composed of long and broad bands of unchanging social and political culture, punctuated in the upper levels by periods of upheaval and re-orientation. Ancient art works document and make visible both aspects: numbing continuity and static production on the one hand and sudden shifts and sharp turns in representation on the other. This paper takes as an example one of those periods of highly-charged visual re-orientation, the early fourth century A.D., and is intended as an alternative to the discussion and explanation of ancient images in this period in terms of artistic and formal processes. It aims to set an unusual and fat-faced late antique portrait (Pl. I) in its proper context alongside the thin-faced portraits of a better known figure (Pl. XII), and looks at the wider implications of this for the interpretation of imperial portrait sculpture as a significant expression of political ideology. The leanfaced man is Constantine, the other it will be argued is Licinius.</jats:p>

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1995

1997
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Aphrodisias Papers, 3 The Setting and Quarries, Mythological and Other Sculptural Decoration, Architectural Development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon

1996
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Book

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1994

1996
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias, 1989-1992

1996
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Chapter
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Aphrodisias papers. 3, The setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon : including the papers given at the Fourth International Aphrodi...

Ptolemaic portraits: Alexandrian types, Egyptian versions

1996
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Alexandria and Alexandrianism

Typology and diversity in the portraits of Augustus

1996
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

A new shield portrait in Izmir

1995
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Journal article
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Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung.

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1993

1995
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Spear-won land at Boscoreale: on the royal paintings of a Roman villa

1994
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Two inscribed monuments from Aphrodisias

1994
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Journal article
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Archaeologischer Anzeiger

Kings and Philosophers

1993
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Images and ideologies : self-definition in the Hellenistic world

The Monument of C. Julius Zoilos

1993
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Book
Aphrodisias (Extinct city)

The Oxford History of Classical Art

1993
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Book
Provides an overview of Greek and Roman art from the 8th century B.C. to the late Roman Empire, examining the different styles, artists, and patrons for each period
Art

A new portrait of Pythagoras

1991
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Aphrodisias papers. 2, The theatre, a sculptor's workshop, philosophers and coin-types : including the papers given at the Third International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at New York University on 7 and 8 April 1989

Aphrodisias Papers 2 The Theatre, a Sculptor's Workshop, Philosophers, and Coin-types : 3rd International Aphrodisias Colloquium : Papers

1991
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Book

Hellenistic Sculpture A Handbook

1991
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Book
Provides a thematic and regional survey of Hellenistic sculpture, focusing on its main elements and its innovations.
Art

Late Roman Philosophers

1991
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Aphrodisias papers. 2, The theatre, a sculptor's workshop, philosophers and coin-types : including the papers given at the Third International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at New York University on 7 and 8 April 1989

Sculpture from the Theatre

1991
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Aphrodisias papers. 2, The theatre, a sculptor's workshop, philosophers and coin-types : including the papers given at the Third International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at New York University on 7 and 8 April 1989

Late Roman Philosopher Portraits from Aphrodisias

1990
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
<jats:p>The rich finds of statues and inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria have done much in recent years to illuminate the world of the late Roman politician, the world of governors and local magnates. Aphrodisias has also recently provided important new evidence for the philosophical image of late antiquity. In 1981–2, the excavations under Professor K. T. Erim recovered a remarkable group of marble shield portraits and busts that represent both contemporary late antique philosophers and ‘classic’ figures of the hellenic past. These portraits add a new dimension to our knowledge of Aphrodisias as an intellectual centre and provide a vivid insight into the pagan culture and education of late antiquity. We are in the world of Eunapius’ <jats:italic>Lives of the Sophists.</jats:italic> We are probably in the context of a philosophical school, perhaps <jats:italic>the</jats:italic> philosophical school of late Roman Aphrodisias.</jats:p>

Myth and allegory in the Sebasteion

1990
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Aphrodisias papers : recent work on architecture and sculpture, including the papers given at the Second International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at King's College London on 14 November 1987

Le Sébasteion et son décor sculpté

1989
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Journal article
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Archéologia

Simulacra Gentium: the Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias

1988
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
<jats:p>Series of provinces and peoples were something new in Roman art. They were a distinctively Roman way of representing their empire visually, and reflect a distinctively Roman and imperial mode of thought. Such images are most familiar to us in sculpture from the reliefs that decorated the temple of Hadrian in Rome, and on coins from the ‘province’ series of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. We know, however, from various written sources that extensive groups of personified peoples were made at Rome under Augustus. Recently, the discovery of such a series in relief at Aphrodisias, there called <jats:italic>ethne</jats:italic> (peoples), allows us for the first time to see what an early imperial group of this kind looked like. The new reliefs were part of the elaborate decoration of a temple complex, probably called a Sebasteion, dedicated to Aphrodite Prometor and the Julio-Claudian emperors. I have already published in this journal the reliefs with imperial scenes, which portray the Roman emperor from a Greek perspective. This article publishes the <jats:italic>ethne</jats:italic> reliefs which, it will be argued, set out to reproduce or adapt in a much more direct manner an Augustan monument in Rome. The use of an Augustan-style ‘province’ series in Asia Minor is a telling illustration both of some of the mechanisms in the transmission of imperial art and of a Greek city's identification with the Roman government's view of its empire.</jats:p>

Hellenistic Royal Portraits

1988
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Book
The visual image of the ruler, particularly in sculpture, played an important role in expressing the character of the new, distinctive style of monarchy brought to Greece and the East by Alexander and the Hellenistic kings.
Social Science

Philorhomaioi: portraits of Roman client rulers

1988
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Ritratto ufficiale e ritratto private: atti dell II conferenza internazionale sul ritratto romano, Roma 26-30 settembre 1984

The Imperial Reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias

1987
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
<jats:p>In 1979, during his continuing excavation of the city of Aphrodisias, Professor K. T. Erim discovered a large temple and sanctuary complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors (the <jats:italic>Theoi Sebastoi</jats:italic>). It had a remarkable sculptural display of which much has survived—there are about eighty relief panels. The complex would probably have been called a Sebasteion: we know from an unrelated inscription that there was one at Aphrodisias. It is of great interest to both the historian and art-historian of the early empire, giving a rare combination of buildings, sculpture, and inscriptions from a unified excavated context and providing an unrivalled picture of the physical setting of the imperial cult in a Greek city. The sculptured reliefs give a great range and combination of iconography quite unexpected in such a context—mythological, allegorical, and imperial. The myth panels seem to offer a missing link between the iconographic repertoire of the Hellenistic world and that used under the Roman empire, while the allegorical and imperial panels give a detailed plcture of the emperor and Rome as seen from the Greek East that is not available elsewhere.</jats:p>

Roman Portraits: Honours, Empresses, and Late Emperors

1985
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

The portraits of the Greeks

1984
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Book
Shows and describes coins, statues, mozaics, and murals which offer portraits of prominent citizens of classical Greece
Art

Who was who in the Greek world, 776 BC-30 BC

1984
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Book
Spanning from 776 BC and the first Olympiad to the final Roman conquest in 30 BC, this reference includes more than 750 biographical entries, with bibliographical entries, historical essays, glossary, maps, genealogies, and chronology
Biography & Autobiography

Greeks, Foreigners, and Roman Republican Portraits

1981
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Journal of Roman Studies
<jats:p>The first part of this paper looks briefly at Greek representations of foreigners and the first individualized Greek portraits and the connections between them. The second part looks at Roman Republican portraits and the problem of the origins of their style and suggests that they should be seen in a historical and psychological context as a Greek reaction to a new group of foreigners of special concern to Greek artists and Greeks in general.</jats:p>

Troilos and Achilles: A monumental statue group from Aphrodisias

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Journal of Roman Studies
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