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In the scholarship of Graeco-Roman art, one is often confronted with images of wounded, dying or dead figures. Under modern approaches there is a tendency to feel sorry for the depicted, to glorify them and to highlight them as heroes or martyrs. However, considering the monuments in their ancient context can lead to very different conclusions. That is, they show the hostile party which demonstrates the power and triumphalism of the rulers. Engel's paper demonstrates the origin of a new image of an enemy created in the Hellenistic period, the so-called Small Dedication of the Attalids of Pergamum. On this example the modes of action of such concepts are investigated especially to show how they were implemented artistically. By comparison with other depictions both from earlier and later periods a continuity of motifs can be shown that works independently of a specific enemy. Thus, it appears that the visual medium for the presentation of such concepts of enemies as a form of political propaganda was handed down schematically through the entirety of Graeco-Roman antiquity, and consolidated to a greater and greater extent.

Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- I Hellenismus. Entstehung, Entwicklung und Problematik eines Epochenbegriffs1 -- II Die historischen Voraussetzungen für die Blüte und Ausbreitung der griechischen Kultur -- 1 Der Asienfeldzug Alexanders des Großen1 -- 2 Die hellenistischen Stadtgründungen2 -- 3 Die königlichen Residenzen als Musenhöfe -- III Alexandria, die Kulturmetropole des Hellenismus1 -- IV Die Bildenden Künste -- 1 Die Plastik1 -- 1.1 Der Altar und Fries von Pergamon5 -- 1.2 Die Laokoongruppe6 (vgl. Abb. 7) -- 1.3 Die Sperlongagruppe11 -- 2 Die Malerei und Mosaikkunst2

This volume sums up the results of the special research program funded by the DFG, "The Hellenistic city as life form" (2006-2012). Accounts of the projects involved in this program document the vitality of daily life in Hellenistic cities. The decline of the classical polis did not shape this time, as was long thought. On the contrary, this time was characterized by dynamic processes of transformation, clear evidence that the polis was in fact flourishing both as a political institution and as an urban organization. The development of city space and architecture, as well as in political, legal, religious, and social life demonstrates the diverse, innovative, and trendsetting Hellenist practice in politics and urban design. Cities are considered in this work along with their settlement space and the surrounding landscape in which the majority of the inhabitants of the polis lived and worked. This volume is intended to serve as the basis for further research, exploring local and regional differences in more detail

von Alfred Heuss ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- 4 H.ant. 9 fob-39