This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. By recreating the eventful life of these statues, from their birth to their disappearance, Vincent Azoulay reveals that they were much more than a simple reflection: an acting symbol that models and makes history.
This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. By recreating the eventful life of these statues, from their birth to their disappearance, Vincent Azoulay reveals that they were much more than a simple reflection: an acting symbol that models and makes history.
Vincent Azoulay is Professor of Ancient Greek History at Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Introduction * PART I: Births and Growing Pains: The Tyrannicides Between Glory and Outrage * 1: First Scene: The Murder of Hipparchus * 2: Date of Birth Unknown: Antenor's Tyrannicides * 3: A Second Birth:The Statuary Group Produced by Critius and Nesiotes * 4: The Artist's Studio as a Playground: Iconographic Variations Based on the Tyrannicides (c. 470411 B.C.) * 5: The Disorders of a Thankless Age: The Oligarchic Revolution of 411 B.C. and Its Consequences * 6: Their Finest Hour: The Revived Glory of the Statuary Group in the Restored Democracy (403 B.C.) * PART II: The Age of Reason? The Incomplete Normalisation of the Tyrannicides * 7: The Age of Honours: New Meanings for the Monument in the Fourth Century * 8: Model 'Notables':The Tyrannicides in the Hellenistic period * 9: Forever Young: The Uses of the Statuary Group in the Roman Period * 9.i: Epilogue -- Born Again: The Statuary Group's Belated Rebirth in the West * Conclusion * Appendix:Iconographic Allusions to the Tyrannicides Group * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* List of Illustrations * Foreword * Acknowledgments * Introduction * PART I: Births and Growing Pains: The Tyrannicides Between Glory and Outrage * 1: First Scene: The Murder of Hipparchus * 2: Date of Birth Unknown: Antenor's Tyrannicides * 3: A Second Birth:The Statuary Group Produced by Critius and Nesiotes * 4: The Artist's Studio as a Playground: Iconographic Variations Based on the Tyrannicides (c. 470411 B.C.) * 5: The Disorders of a Thankless Age: The Oligarchic Revolution of 411 B.C. and Its Consequences * 6: Their Finest Hour: The Revived Glory of the Statuary Group in the Restored Democracy (403 B.C.) * PART II: The Age of Reason? The Incomplete Normalisation of the Tyrannicides * 7: The Age of Honours: New Meanings for the Monument in the Fourth Century * 8: Model 'Notables':The Tyrannicides in the Hellenistic period * 9: Forever Young: The Uses of the Statuary Group in the Roman Period * 9.i: Epilogue -- Born Again: The Statuary Group's Belated Rebirth in the West * Conclusion * Appendix:Iconographic Allusions to the Tyrannicides Group * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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