The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Ada Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that characterize this literature. In this study, she examines the Mosaic as it may have functioned in two different contexts, first as a Greek painting of the fourth century B.C., and then as a Roman mosaic of ca. 100 B.C.
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"Recommended for students/scholars of Greek and Roman art." Mary Sturgeon, Religious Studies Review
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The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Ada Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that characterize this literature. In this study, she examines the Mosaic as it may have functioned in two different contexts, first as a Greek painting of the fourth century B.C., and then as a Roman mosaic of ca. 100 B.C.
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IT IS CONSIDERED one of the great masterpieces of ancient art, a work whose beauty conjures up something of the astonishing achievement of artists otherwise known to us as mere names, listed in Books 34 and 35 of Pliny's Natural History. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equestrian battle, mosaic copies, mosaic itself, pictorial figures, volute krater, pebble mosaics, battle imagery, painted model, pictorial surface, dramatic dimension, pictorial narrative, ancient tragedy, lost painting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alexander Mosaic, House of the Faun, Photo Deutsches, Alexander Sarcophagus, Aemilius Paulus, British Museum, Archaeological Museum, Iwo Jima, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Alexander the Great, Trajanic Frieze, Photo Soprintendenza Archeologica, Ptolemaios Hephaistion, Darius Painter, Granikos Monument, Hostilius Mancinus, Kinch Tomb, Persian Wars, Arch of Constantine, Athena Nike, Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Column of Trajan, Hellenistic Greek, New York, Palestrina Mosaic New!
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IT IS CONSIDERED one of the great masterpieces of ancient art, a work whose beauty conjures up something of the astonishing achievement of artists otherwise known to us as mere names, listed in Books 34 and 35 of Pliny's Natural History. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equestrian battle, mosaic copies, mosaic itself, pictorial figures, volute krater, pebble mosaics, battle imagery, painted model, pictorial surface, dramatic dimension, pictorial narrative, ancient tragedy, lost painting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alexander Mosaic, House of the Faun, Photo Deutsches, Alexander Sarcophagus, Aemilius Paulus, British Museum, Archaeological Museum, Iwo Jima, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Alexander the Great, Trajanic Frieze, Photo Soprintendenza Archeologica, Ptolemaios Hephaistion, Darius Painter, Granikos Monument, Hostilius Mancinus, Kinch Tomb, Persian Wars, Arch of Constantine, Athena Nike, Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Column of Trajan, Hellenistic Greek, New York, Palestrina Mosaic New!
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- The Language of Images (A Critical Inquiry Book) by W. J. T. Mitchell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Greek Tragedy in Action by Oliver Taplin in Back Matter
- This Is Not a Pipe (Art Quantum S.) by Michel Foucault in Back Matter
- Art in the Hellenistic Age by Jerome Jordan Pollitt in Back Matter
- Roman Italy (Exploring the Roman World) by T. W. Potter in Back Matter
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- Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin on page 40, page 42, and Back Matter
- Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt on page 16, page 130, and page 131
- The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) by Glenn R. Bugh on page 183, and Back Matter
- Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness by Guy MacLean Rogers in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Companion to the Hellenistic World (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by Andrew Erskine on page 514, and Back Matter
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