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• catalog abstract ""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.A variety of interpretive issues regarding history and art history are thus foregrounded, which have broader implications for the study of ancient monuments."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b10248367.
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description ""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.A variety of interpretive issues regarding history and art history are thus foregrounded, which have broader implications for the study of ancient monuments."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-270) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction and methodology. Description ; Questions, issues, and scholarship ; Art and history; art and texts -- Battle images and battle narratives; the background -- The question of the copy -- The battle between Darius and Alexander; the first level of existence. Issues of date and context ; Reading the Alexander Mosaic : actions and people ; Narrative theory and narrative patterns in the Alexander Mosaic ; Texts and pictorial narrative ; Two readings of the composition ; The "Homeric" aspect ; History and interpretation (Darius's prominence and Alexander's displacement ; Alexander and the Persians : some historical considerations ; Battle mechanics : clarities and ambiguities ; Greek mercenaries, Macedonians, Persians : a historical interplay ; The historicity of the Mosaic) ; The painter -- The narrative and the dramatic. The narrative and the iconic : an interplay ; The dramatic mode and the ancient theater ; Drama in the Fourth Century B.C. ; Tragic history -- The narrative and the descriptive. Costumes, decoration, and mirroring ; Narration versus description ; Gestures, postures, and expressions -- The Mosaic in Roman context; the second level of existence. The House of the Faun : the architectural context and the owners ; Hellenistic models and their transmission to the Roman world ; Meanings of the Mosaic in its Pompeian context.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 279 p., [7] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0521563399 (hardback)".
• catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in classical art and iconography".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)".
• catalog subject "738.5/237/7 20".
• catalog subject "Alexander mosaic (Pompeii)".
• catalog subject "Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. Art.".
• catalog subject "Darius III, King of Persia, -330 B.C. Art.".
• catalog subject "Issus, Battle of, Turkey, 333 B.C., in art.".
• catalog subject "Mosaics, Roman Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)".
• catalog subject "NA3770 .C58 1997".
• catalog subject "Pavements, Mosaic Italy Pompeii (Extinct city)".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction and methodology. Description ; Questions, issues, and scholarship ; Art and history; art and texts -- Battle images and battle narratives; the background -- The question of the copy -- The battle between Darius and Alexander; the first level of existence. Issues of date and context ; Reading the Alexander Mosaic : actions and people ; Narrative theory and narrative patterns in the Alexander Mosaic ; Texts and pictorial narrative ; Two readings of the composition ; The "Homeric" aspect ; History and interpretation (Darius's prominence and Alexander's displacement ; Alexander and the Persians : some historical considerations ; Battle mechanics : clarities and ambiguities ; Greek mercenaries, Macedonians, Persians : a historical interplay ; The historicity of the Mosaic) ; The painter -- The narrative and the dramatic. The narrative and the iconic : an interplay ; The dramatic mode and the ancient theater ; Drama in the Fourth Century B.C. ; Tragic history -- The narrative and the descriptive. Costumes, decoration, and mirroring ; Narration versus description ; Gestures, postures, and expressions -- The Mosaic in Roman context; the second level of existence. The House of the Faun : the architectural context and the owners ; Hellenistic models and their transmission to the Roman world ; Meanings of the Mosaic in its Pompeian context.".
• catalog title "The Alexander mosaic : stories of victory and defeat / Ada Cohen.".
• catalog type "Art. fast".
• catalog type "text".