Ansichten des Krieges

Kampfreliefs klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit im Kulturvergleich

By (author) Felix Pirson

Book cover: Ansichten des Krieges

Extent: 408 pages

Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Subjects: Classical Studies, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Archäologische Forschungen

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2014)

ISBN: 9783954900350

8.31 x 11.69 inches

Price: $132.00

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The study is dedicated to the visual language and the messages of reliefs showing images of battle and fight, which provided the contemporary viewers with models of explanation for their own cognition. The analysis of 195 reliefs from Athens, Lycia, the Black Sea-Region, the Hellenistic world and from Etruria has been conceived as a further element in a history of the perception of war examining media practices in association with a central cultural phenomenon. The identification of a great variety of perceptions of war already in Classical and Hellenistic times results in the abandonment of the dichotomy between Greek and Roman in the consideration of ancient battle depictions, which has dominated scholarship on this topic until now.<br/>


Die Studie widmet sich der Bildsprache und den Botschaften von Kampfreliefs, die ihren Betrachtern Deutungsmuster fur den Umgang mit kriegerischen Ereignissen zur Verfugung stellten. Die Analyse von 195 Bildern aus Athen, Lykien, dem Schwarzmeergebiet, der hellenistischen Welt und aus Etrurien leistet einen Beitrag zur Wahrnehmungsgeschichte des Krieges, die mediale Praktiken der Auseinandersetzung mit einem zentralen kulturgeschichtlichen Phanomen untersucht. Mit der Feststellung vielfaltiger Ansichten des Krieges bereits in klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit mua endgultig von der Dichotomie “Griechisch-Romisch” in der Betrachtung antiker Kampfdarstellung Abstand genommen werden, die in der Forschung bislang pragend war.

Prof. Dr. Felix Pirson (born 1968) studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Art History at Bonn, Cologne, Munich and Cambridge. 1996 he finished his PhD at Munich University about rented apartments at Pompeii and Herculaneum. After appointments at the german Archaeological Institute Rome and Cottbus Technical University, he became Assistant Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at Leipzig University in 2000, where he did his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 2005 with the study presented here. Since 2006 he is First Director of DAI Istanbul branch and head of the Pergamon Excavation. In 2010 he was appointed as Honorary Professor at Leipzig University. He is corresponding member of the American, Austrian and Turkish Institute of Archaeology as well as senior fellow at the Institute of the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. In 2014 he was awarded a visiting-professorship at the École pratique des hautes études Paris. <br/>

  • By (author) Felix Pirson