Effigies: Ancient Portraiture as Figuration of the Particular. Translated from German by Ross Brendle

by Dietrich Boschung, Ross Brendle (Translator)

This volume shows how the portraits of the Greeks and Romans gave shape to and reinforced the perceptions of the particular character of a person. These considerations are based on intensive archaeological research, which in recent decades has successfully addressed questions of typology, identification, and historical classification of ancient portraits. Three aspects are examined in the interweaving of case studies and general the preconditions for the creation of portraits; the medial conditions of the creation processes; the efficacy of the created form.

368 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 2021

About the author

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Boschung (Dr. habil., Universität München, 1989; Ph.D., Archaeology, Universität Bern, 1983) is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universität zu Köln. He served as Vice Dean for Research in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Cologne from April 2009 to March 2011. Additionally, he has been co-director of the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies—Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations at the University of Cologne, established with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, since April 2009.