Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman spolia [electronic resource] : objects, appropriation and cultural change / edited by Irene J.F. de Jong, Miguel John Versluys.
"Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating this phenomenon in terms of appropriation and cultural change. In-depth i...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Euhormos : Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation,
5 |
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Objects, appropriation and cultural change
Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia: Objects, Appropriation and Cultural Change |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Innovating Objects? Spolia and the Question of Appropriation / Irene J.F. de Jong and Miguel John Versluys
- How to Deal with 'Things from Outside' : An Anthropological Perspective / Pieter ter Keurs
- Triumphus and the Taming of Objects : Spoliation and the Process of Appropriation in Late Republican Rome / Miguel John Versluys
- Spolia as Exempla, Exempla as Spolia : Two Case Studies on Historical (Dis)Continuity and Morality / Christoph Pieper
- Herodotus' Framing of the Persian Spolia at Plataea / Irene J.F. de Jong
- Herodotus and the Persian Spolia on the Acropolis of Athens / J.Z. van Rookhuijzen
- 'A City Is Not Adorned by What Comes from Outside, but by the Virtue of Its Inhabitants' : Polybius on the Pragmatics of Spoliation / Rutger J. Allan
- Spoils of Sicily and Their Impact on Late Republican Rome : An Archaeological Perspective / Suzan van de Velde
- Luxuria peregrina (Livy 39.6) : Spolia and Rome's Gastronomic Revolution / Lidewij van Gils and Rebecca Henzel
- Showing and Telling Spolia : The Triumphal Procession of Aemilius Paullus in Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus / Michel Buijs
- 'The Glory of Alexander and Philip Made Spoil by Roman Arms' : The Triumph of Aemilius Paullus in 167 BCE / Rolf Strootman
- Between Triumph and Tragedy : Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 7.121-157 / Luuk Huitink
- Judaea at the Tiber : Sacred Objects from Judaea and Their New Function in Imperial Rome / Eric M. Moormann
- 'Spolia' as Category : Greek and Roman Perspectives.