{"product_id":"statues-and-cities-john-ma-9780199668915","title":"Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World","description":"Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting statues, and the development of families imitating this practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis transaction tells us a lot about the history of these cities and how ancient art worked as a construction of relations during the Hellenistic period (c. 350 BC- c. AD 1), which is marked by a political culture of civic devotion, common decision making, and publicness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs honorific statues were considered public art, the volume also investigates the workings of images, representations, memory, and the monumental public form of permanent inscription, to see what stories the Hellenistic city-states can reveal about themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Ma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199668914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199668915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 7.60w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2014","brand":"John Ma","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685593993471,"sku":"9780199668915","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd3eab31-df8c-492a-8cb5-58508add57b2.jpg?v=1741726191","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/statues-and-cities-john-ma-9780199668915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}