4,500 (Click to find out more) A Geometric Oinochoe Western Greek, circa 720 B.C. Offering an overview of the role of portraits in Archaic and Classical Greece, her study includes local histories of the development of Greek portraiture in sanctuaries such as Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. Head of a Youth Western Greek, Tarentine. She argues that often the goal of Classical portraiture was to link the individual to divine or heroic models. Bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, she grounds her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus' Histories and situates portrait representation within the context of contemporary debates about the nature of arete (excellence), the value of historical commemoration and the relationship between the human individual and the gods and heroes. By 580 BC Carthage had become the recognized leader of all the Phoenician colonies after protecting Lilybaeum from a Greek attack. National Museum of Denmark Framed, Prints, Puzzles, Posters, Canvas, Fine Art, Mounted, Metal. The greatest of the Phoenician colonies was Carthage, founded in 814 BC.
Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, Keesing demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and without a single, unifying history. The Romans spoke of the Greek colonies in the south as Magna Graecia (Greater Greece).
Pugliese Carratelli, Giovanni, 1911-2010 (Added Author). New insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece. The Greek world : art and civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily.
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