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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- Includes bibliographical references
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- 726/.8/091822
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- 20
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- 9781442677340
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- F46 1990eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 498 p.)
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 12
- Introduction 16
- MAPS 20
- 1 Types of Monumental Tombs and Terminology 28
- 2 Monumental Tombs prior to the Fourth Century 42
- I: Built Tombs 42
- A: Use of Pyramidal Structures in Tombs before the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos 45
- B: Other Types of Built Monumental Tombs 50
- II: Rock-cut Tombs 59
- III: Tumuli and Underground Tombs 69
- 3 The Development of Tomb Structures in Asia Minor from the Nereid Monument Onwards 78
- I: The Nereid Monument at Xanthos 79
- II: Heroon at Limyra 81
- III: The Mausoleum at Halikarnassos 84
- IV: The Large Tomb at Labraynda 87
- V: Tombs at Knidos, Alinda, and Antiphellos 89
- VI: The Belevi Mausoleum near Ephesos 92
- VII: The Charmyleion on the Island of Kos 95
- VIII: Tombs at Lindos and Rhodini 96
- IX: Ta Marmara near Didyma 100
- X: Diocaesarea Tower Tomb 101
- XI: Heroa at Gölbaşi-Trysa, Miletos, and Termessos 101
- XII: Simple Façade-Tombs 109
- 4 The Development of Hellenistic Monumental Tombs outside Asia Minor 115
- I: Funerary Monuments in Greece 116
- A: The Tomb at Kallithea 116
- B: The Tombs in Arkadia 117
- C: The Tombs in Macedonia 117
- II: Funerary Monuments in Albania (ancient Illyria) 122
- III: Funerary Monuments in Italy 126
- A: The Tombs at Canosa 126
- B: The Tombs at Sovana and Norchia 128
- C: Middle and Later Republican Tombs in Italy: Some Hellenistic Influences 135
- D: The 'Tomb of Theron' in Sicily 138
- E: The Tomb of M. Vergilius Eurysaces in Rome 139
- IV: Funerary Monuments in North Africa 139
- A: Tombs at Cyrene and Ptolemais 139
- B: Tombs in Alexandria 142
- C: Taposiris Magna, Lighthouse Tomb 146
- D: Tombs in Northwestern Africa 146
- V: Funerary Monuments of the Near and Middle East 153
- A: Tombs in Jerusalem 153
- B: The Tomb of Hamrath, Suweida (Syria), and the Monuments at Hermel and Kalat Fakra (Lebanon) 161
- C: Tombs of the Nabataeans 163
- VI: The Temple Tomb at Ai-Khanoum (Afghanistan) 171
- Conclusions 173
- Appendix 1: Technical Aspects of Some of the Roof Constructions of Tumulus Tombs 178
- I: True Arches and Vaults 179
- II: Corbel Vaulting 180
- III: 'Lantern,' or 'Diagonal,' Roofing 183
- Appendix 2: The Relationship of Monumental Sarcophagi, Tholoi, and Other Buildings to Monumental Tombs 186
- I: Monumental Sarcophagi 186
- II: Tholoi 193
- III: Choragic Monuments and Monumental Altars 194
- NOTES 196
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 252
- ILLUSTRATIONS 262
- INDEX 496
- A 496
- B 498
- C 498
- D 499
- E 500
- F 500
- G 501
- H 501
- I 502
- J 502
- K 502
- L 503
- M 504
- N 505
- O 505
- P 506
- Q 507
- R 507
- S 508
- T 509
- U 510
- V 510
- W 510
- X 510
- Y 510
- Z 510
