Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC brings together for the first time a substantial body of material from ancient Macedonia, comprising stone funerary monuments, be they statues, stelai, or reliefs, which feature figured representations. The volume's geographical focus encompasses what can be referred to as the national territory of the ancient Macedonians, as established largely from the reign of Philip II until the last Antigonids, and extending from the range of Mount Pindos and Lake Lychnitis in the west as far as the Strymon valley and Mount Pangaion in the east. Its broad chronological scope stretches back to prehistoric times, when stone funerary monuments seem to have first appeared in the area, and into the first century AD, when significant changes in the modes which shaped (self-) representation in a funerary context can be traced. However, the volume takes as its main focus the Classical and Hellenistic periods, describing and unravelling the codes which moulded the representation of the dead on tombstones dating from the fifth to the first century BC. Paying close attention to the wealth of information that can be gained through morphological, typological, iconographical, and epigraphic analysis, the volume goes beyond artistic evaluation to consider social history: social and gender roles, social status, cultural identity, regionalism or consciously constructed cosmopolitanism, shifts in religious behaviour, and attitudes towards death and a possible afterlife are all addressed, revealing the ideas that shaped aesthetic predilections and the choice of (self-)representation.
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Περιεχόμενα: 3: Figured Tombstones of the Fifth Century BC
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Περιεχόμενα: 2: From Stone Effigies to the Aiane Sculptures
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Περιεχόμενα: List of Figures
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Περιεχόμενα: 5: Figured Tombstones of the Third-First Centuries BC
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Περιεχόμενα: List of Maps
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Περιεχόμενα: Catalogue of Figured Tombstones
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Περιεχόμενα: 1: Introduction
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Περιεχόμενα: References
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Περιεχόμενα: List of Colour Plates
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Περιεχόμενα: General Index
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Περιεχόμενα: Appendix: Excavations of Cemeteries in Macedonia
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Περιεχόμενα: Table of Concordances
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Περιεχόμενα: Index of Museums
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Περιεχόμενα: 6: Figured Tombstones in Context
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Περιεχόμενα: Acknowledgements
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Περιεχόμενα: 7: Conclusions
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Περιεχόμενα: Index of Catalogue Entries
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Περιεχόμενα: List of Black and White Photographs and Sketches of Catalogued Tombstones
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Περιεχόμενα: 4: Figured Tombstones of the Fourth Century BC
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Περιεχόμενα: Index of Names
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