Hellenistic Art: From Alexander the Great to Augustus - Softcover

Lucilla Burn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714122254 ISBN 13: 9780714122250

Publisher: British Museum Press, 2004

Synopsis

His vast territory, split up among his generals after his premature death, was ruled by several great Hellenistic dynasties, whose kingdoms encompassed a variety of strongly independent cultural traditions. Eventually, by the late first century BC, all of the Hellenistic kingdoms had come under the dominion of Rome. Beginning with the historical and political background to the era, the author then traces the development of a new, distinctive cultural character in the Hellenistic Age and explores how this was shaped by the ambitions of its new individual rulers, the increased affluence of their urban centres and the contrasts between the regional diversity and common cultural identity (koine) which characterized their societies.

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About the Author

Lucilla Burn was formerly an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, the British Museum, and is now Keeper of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She is the author of The Meidias Painter, The Legendary Past: Greek Myths, The British Museum Book of Greek and Roman Art and, with Reynold Higgins, volume III of A Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714122254
• ISBN 13: 9780714122250
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192