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, or stelai, which feature figured representations of the deceased and their relatives, either in relief or in paint. Taking as its main focus the Classical and Hellenistic periods, the volume describes and unravels the codes which moulded the representation of the dead on tombstones dating from the fifth to the first century BC. It goes beyond artistic evaluation to consider the social history of the monuments, revealing the ideas that shaped aesthetic predilections and the choice of self-representation, as well as wider attitudes towards death and a possible after-life.
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Oxford University Press
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9780198746454
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221900400
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Myrina Kalaitzi
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Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth-First Century BC