Monumental tombs of the Hellenistic age : a study of selected tombs from the pre-classical to the early imperial era / Janos Fedak.
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TextSeries: Phoenix. Supplementary volume (Toronto, Ont.) ; ; 27.Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781442677340
- 1442677341
- Tombs -- Mediterranean Region
- Architecture, Hellenistic -- Mediterranean Region
- Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
- Tombeaux -- Méditerranée, Région de la
- Architecture hellénistique -- Méditerranée, Région de la
- Méditerranée, Région de la -- Antiquités
- ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious
- HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece
- Antiquities
- Architecture, Hellenistic
- Tombs
- Mediterranean Region
- 726/.8/091822
- NA6139 .F46 1990eb
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""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Introduction""; ""MAPS""; ""1 Types of Monumental Tombs and Terminology""; ""2 Monumental Tombs prior to the Fourth Century""; ""I: Built Tombs""; ""A: Use of Pyramidal Structures in Tombs before the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos""; ""B: Other Types of Built Monumental Tombs""; ""II: Rock-cut Tombs""; ""III: Tumuli and Underground Tombs""; ""3 The Development of Tomb Structures in Asia Minor from the Nereid Monument Onwards""; ""I: The Nereid Monument at Xanthos""; ""II: Heroon at Limyra""; ""III: The Mausoleum at Halikarnassos""; ""IV: The Large Tomb at Labraynda""
""V: Tombs at Knidos, Alinda, and Antiphellos""""VI: The Belevi Mausoleum near Ephesos""; ""VII: The Charmyleion on the Island of Kos""; ""VIII: Tombs at Lindos and Rhodini""; ""IX: Ta Marmara near Didyma""; ""X: Diocaesarea Tower Tomb""; ""XI: Heroa at Gölbaşi-Trysa, Miletos, and Termessos""; ""XII: Simple FaÃade-Tombs""; ""4 The Development of Hellenistic Monumental Tombs outside Asia Minor""; ""I: Funerary Monuments in Greece""; ""A: The Tomb at Kallithea""; ""B: The Tombs in Arkadia""; ""C: The Tombs in Macedonia""; ""II: Funerary Monuments in Albania (ancient Illyria)""
""III: Funerary Monuments in Italy""""A: The Tombs at Canosa""; ""B: The Tombs at Sovana and Norchia""; ""C: Middle and Later Republican Tombs in Italy: Some Hellenistic Influences""; ""D: The 'Tomb of Theron' in Sicily""; ""E: The Tomb of M. Vergilius Eurysaces in Rome""; ""IV: Funerary Monuments in North Africa""; ""A: Tombs at Cyrene and Ptolemais""; ""B: Tombs in Alexandria""; ""C: Taposiris Magna, Lighthouse Tomb""; ""D: Tombs in Northwestern Africa""; ""V: Funerary Monuments of the Near and Middle East""; ""A: Tombs in Jerusalem""
""B: The Tomb of Hamrath, Suweida (Syria), and the Monuments at Hermel and Kalat Fakra (Lebanon)""""C: Tombs of the Nabataeans""; ""VI: The Temple Tomb at Ai-Khanoum (Afghanistan)""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix 1: Technical Aspects of Some of the Roof Constructions of Tumulus Tombs""; ""I: True Arches and Vaults""; ""II: Corbel Vaulting""; ""III: 'Lantern, ' or 'Diagonal, ' Roofing""; ""Appendix 2: The Relationship of Monumental Sarcophagi, Tholoi, and Other Buildings to Monumental Tombs""; ""I: Monumental Sarcophagi""; ""II: Tholoi""; ""III: Choragic Monuments and Monumental Altars""
""Notes""""selected bibliography""; ""illustrations""; ""index""; ""a""; ""b""; ""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""q""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""x""; ""y""; ""z""
Most of the grandiose and often ostentatious Hellenistic monumental tombs were power- fully expressive and symbolic structures, built to glorify and display the wealth and power of kings, queens, nobles, and other persons of influence or to serve as shrines for the worship of the heroized dead. They were inventive in design and form, created to demonstrate the achievements of the dead in a public architecture of permanence and durability.This lavishly illustrated monograph brings together previously scattered information about Hellenistic funerary monuments and Janos Fedak's own research on the exterior architecture of these impressive structures in the Mediterranean region. The author first establishes a typology of main tomb forms and then considers some of the predecessors of the Hellenistic tombs. He explores the variations of form that resulted from differences in climate, building materials, and social and religious customs. Adherence to strong local traditional practice in building is visible in each region, but new ideas and novel funerary architecture were welcomed everywhere in the Hellenistic world. Fedak's wide-ranging approach makes the work of interest not only to specialists in Greek architecture and archaeologists but also to students of classical studies and historians of art and religion.
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