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Chapter 7 - Antioch’s Visual Culture and Its Hellenistic Past

from Part I - Beginnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

By
Elizabeth M. Molacek
Edited by
Andrea U. De Giorgi
Andrea U. De Giorgi
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Florida State University
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Summary

Hellenistic Antioch remains poorly known. Yet the later city’s visual repertoire, whether through emblemata, entire tessellated surfaces, or sculpture in the round is a recursive celebration of a shared Hellenistic past.

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AntiochHellenisticMosaicsSculpture
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Antioch on the Orontes
History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
 , pp. 89 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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