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Subject(s)

• Military trophies in art [Browse]
• Art, Greek—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Art, Roman—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Military trophies—Greece—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Military trophies—Rome [Browse]

Series

Routledge monographs in classical studies. [More in this series]

Summary note

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--New York University, 2011) under the title: Roman trophy from battlefield marker to emblem of power.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Grappling with definitions
• Repairing fractured perspectives
• The Greek trophy: written sources
• Visual evidence & the history of the Greek trophy
• The Roman adoption & adaptation of the Greek trophy
• The trophy tableau
• The landscape trophy.

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ISBN

• 1-351-84658-2
• 1-315-22533-6
• 1-351-84657-4

OCLC

1023828126

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315225333

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