Contributors: Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Lindsay MacDonald, Rachel Mairs, Jane Masséglia, Kyr... more Contributors: Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Lindsay MacDonald, Rachel Mairs, Jane Masséglia, Kyriakos Savvopoulos, Sarah Norodom, Ben Altshuler, Patricia Usick, Andrew Cuffley, Ian Wright and Judith Pillinger.
The CSAD team behind the recent study of the Philae obelisk at Kingston Lacy have joined forces with colleagues from the British Museum, UCL, GOM UK and the European Space Agency’s Philae Cometary Mission, to produce a booklet to celebrate their campaign to capture and revise the obelisk’s bilingual inscriptions.
The Philae Obelisk: Tales from Egypt, Dorset and Outer Space is aimed at the general reader, and illustrated throughout in colour. It comprises ten chapters on the life of the obelisk, from its origins in Ptolemaic Egypt and its role in the nineteenth-century decipherment of hieroglyphs, to the recent study with RTI and 3D-imaging technology and eponymous space mission.
Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the sl... more Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the slave from the citizen? Was there a Hellenistic etiquette of sitting down? How did Hellenistic Greeks feel about the bodies of the disabled and the elderly? And what did it mean to Tuck-for-Luck?
This richly-illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each.
By examining Hellenistic kings, queens, public intellectuals, citizen men and women, Africans, servants, paidagogoi, fishermen, peasants, old women, dwarfs, and the disabled, this study provides important new insights into what is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic Art, and into the anxieties of Hellenistic society. In doing so, it not only reconsiders familiar concepts such as the 'individuality' of the civic elite and the apparent passivity of women, but also reveals Hellenistic attitudes towards issues such as old age, race, and child abuse, and explores power, prejudice, and the role of art in both reflecting and enforcing social stereotypes.
Preface List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Kings and the Civic Elite 1: The Body Language of Hellenistic Kings 2: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Men 3: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Women Part II: Lower Status Groups 4: The Body Language of 'Genre' Figures 5: The Body Language of 'Grotesques' Part III: Synthesis 6: Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society Appendix 1: The Mime 'problem' Appendix 2: The Body Language of Sitting Bibliography Index
Large format art book with photography by Turkish fine art photogrpaher Ahmet Ertuğ. Text by R.R.... more Large format art book with photography by Turkish fine art photogrpaher Ahmet Ertuğ. Text by R.R.R. Smith and Jane Masséglia (texts on individual theatres, pp. 24-199).
Book review: Dress in Mediterranean antiquity. Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Batten, Alicia J... more Book review: Dress in Mediterranean antiquity. Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Batten, Alicia J. and Kelly Olson (eds). T&T Clark, 2021
Poster delivered at SAA 2015 in San Francisco, in which patterns of skeletal damage found only in... more Poster delivered at SAA 2015 in San Francisco, in which patterns of skeletal damage found only in the male occupants of a Late Roman tomb, are explained in relation to ancient farming practices.
That this large paperback is intended as an undergraduate textbook is made explicit in the front ... more That this large paperback is intended as an undergraduate textbook is made explicit in the front matter, where directions are given to ‘[online] resources created by the author to help you use this book in university courses, whether you’re an instructor or a student’. It comprises fifteen chapters, examining material from the fourth millennium to the first century B.C.E., but the table of contents reveals that the volume is not just the History of Greek Art proposed in the title: readers will also find discussion of architecture in almost every chapter, for example palaces in (2), domestic housing in (5), sanctuary layout and the architectural orders in (7) and Hellenistic cities in (14). The ‘university courses’ the author has in mind are clearly those in Greek art and architecture. The volume appears attractive and helpful. The soft-bound colour pages sit conveniently open without the need for ‘notetaker’s elbow’, while their contents and format are constructed with the student i...
On the challenges of encoding a varied inscription collection using Epidoc. Delivered at the 6th ... more On the challenges of encoding a varied inscription collection using Epidoc. Delivered at the 6th EAGLE conference in Bari, and appearing in A.E. Felle and A. Rocco (eds.) Proceedings of 6th EAGLE International Event (24-25 September 2015, Bari, Italy), Oxford, Archaeopress, 131-140. A recording of the lecture which accompanies this paper can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUSA_20M24
Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage Proceedings of the First EAGLE International Conference
Paper delivered at EAGLE 2014 in Paris, on the work of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (... more Paper delivered at EAGLE 2014 in Paris, on the work of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (AshLI) appealing and relevent to the public.
Poster delivered at FERCAN 2014 at UWTSD, on two inscribed Roman altars in the Ashmolean Museum c... more Poster delivered at FERCAN 2014 at UWTSD, on two inscribed Roman altars in the Ashmolean Museum collection, dedicated to Celtic gods. Part of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (AshLI).
Contributors: Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Lindsay MacDonald, Rachel Mairs, Jane Masséglia, Kyr... more Contributors: Alan Bowman, Charles Crowther, Lindsay MacDonald, Rachel Mairs, Jane Masséglia, Kyriakos Savvopoulos, Sarah Norodom, Ben Altshuler, Patricia Usick, Andrew Cuffley, Ian Wright and Judith Pillinger.
The CSAD team behind the recent study of the Philae obelisk at Kingston Lacy have joined forces with colleagues from the British Museum, UCL, GOM UK and the European Space Agency’s Philae Cometary Mission, to produce a booklet to celebrate their campaign to capture and revise the obelisk’s bilingual inscriptions.
The Philae Obelisk: Tales from Egypt, Dorset and Outer Space is aimed at the general reader, and illustrated throughout in colour. It comprises ten chapters on the life of the obelisk, from its origins in Ptolemaic Egypt and its role in the nineteenth-century decipherment of hieroglyphs, to the recent study with RTI and 3D-imaging technology and eponymous space mission.
Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the sl... more Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the slave from the citizen? Was there a Hellenistic etiquette of sitting down? How did Hellenistic Greeks feel about the bodies of the disabled and the elderly? And what did it mean to Tuck-for-Luck?
This richly-illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each.
By examining Hellenistic kings, queens, public intellectuals, citizen men and women, Africans, servants, paidagogoi, fishermen, peasants, old women, dwarfs, and the disabled, this study provides important new insights into what is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic Art, and into the anxieties of Hellenistic society. In doing so, it not only reconsiders familiar concepts such as the 'individuality' of the civic elite and the apparent passivity of women, but also reveals Hellenistic attitudes towards issues such as old age, race, and child abuse, and explores power, prejudice, and the role of art in both reflecting and enforcing social stereotypes.
Preface List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Kings and the Civic Elite 1: The Body Language of Hellenistic Kings 2: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Men 3: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Women Part II: Lower Status Groups 4: The Body Language of 'Genre' Figures 5: The Body Language of 'Grotesques' Part III: Synthesis 6: Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society Appendix 1: The Mime 'problem' Appendix 2: The Body Language of Sitting Bibliography Index
Large format art book with photography by Turkish fine art photogrpaher Ahmet Ertuğ. Text by R.R.... more Large format art book with photography by Turkish fine art photogrpaher Ahmet Ertuğ. Text by R.R.R. Smith and Jane Masséglia (texts on individual theatres, pp. 24-199).
Book review: Dress in Mediterranean antiquity. Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Batten, Alicia J... more Book review: Dress in Mediterranean antiquity. Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Batten, Alicia J. and Kelly Olson (eds). T&T Clark, 2021
Poster delivered at SAA 2015 in San Francisco, in which patterns of skeletal damage found only in... more Poster delivered at SAA 2015 in San Francisco, in which patterns of skeletal damage found only in the male occupants of a Late Roman tomb, are explained in relation to ancient farming practices.
That this large paperback is intended as an undergraduate textbook is made explicit in the front ... more That this large paperback is intended as an undergraduate textbook is made explicit in the front matter, where directions are given to ‘[online] resources created by the author to help you use this book in university courses, whether you’re an instructor or a student’. It comprises fifteen chapters, examining material from the fourth millennium to the first century B.C.E., but the table of contents reveals that the volume is not just the History of Greek Art proposed in the title: readers will also find discussion of architecture in almost every chapter, for example palaces in (2), domestic housing in (5), sanctuary layout and the architectural orders in (7) and Hellenistic cities in (14). The ‘university courses’ the author has in mind are clearly those in Greek art and architecture. The volume appears attractive and helpful. The soft-bound colour pages sit conveniently open without the need for ‘notetaker’s elbow’, while their contents and format are constructed with the student i...
On the challenges of encoding a varied inscription collection using Epidoc. Delivered at the 6th ... more On the challenges of encoding a varied inscription collection using Epidoc. Delivered at the 6th EAGLE conference in Bari, and appearing in A.E. Felle and A. Rocco (eds.) Proceedings of 6th EAGLE International Event (24-25 September 2015, Bari, Italy), Oxford, Archaeopress, 131-140. A recording of the lecture which accompanies this paper can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUSA_20M24
Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage Proceedings of the First EAGLE International Conference
Paper delivered at EAGLE 2014 in Paris, on the work of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (... more Paper delivered at EAGLE 2014 in Paris, on the work of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (AshLI) appealing and relevent to the public.
Poster delivered at FERCAN 2014 at UWTSD, on two inscribed Roman altars in the Ashmolean Museum c... more Poster delivered at FERCAN 2014 at UWTSD, on two inscribed Roman altars in the Ashmolean Museum collection, dedicated to Celtic gods. Part of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (AshLI).
Explanatory video by Jane Masséglia on the iconography of the Trojan War mosaic discovered in Rut... more Explanatory video by Jane Masséglia on the iconography of the Trojan War mosaic discovered in Rutland. Part of 2021 media release package by University of Leicester Archaeological Services and the School of Archaeology and Ancient History.
Opinion piece for Times Higher about charges levied by museums and photo archives for images inte... more Opinion piece for Times Higher about charges levied by museums and photo archives for images intended for academic use.
Jane Masséglia speaking to BBC online about the work of CSAD (Centre for the Study of Ancient Doc... more Jane Masséglia speaking to BBC online about the work of CSAD (Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents) on the Philae Obelisk. Part of celebrations in October 2014 for the Philae Lander and Rosetta Mission to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Text article on CSAD's imaging work on the Philae Obelisk. Part of the celebrations in October 20... more Text article on CSAD's imaging work on the Philae Obelisk. Part of the celebrations in October 2014 for the European Space Agency's Rosetta Mission and the Philae Lander.
Article on the Philae Lander and Rosetta Space Mission, including decipherment work of Oxford's C... more Article on the Philae Lander and Rosetta Space Mission, including decipherment work of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Ancient Document (CSAD) on the eponymous obelisk at Kingston Lacy.
Thoughts on the recent Pompeii Exhibition at the British Museum, which first appeared in The Art ... more Thoughts on the recent Pompeii Exhibition at the British Museum, which first appeared in The Art Newspaper.
Please note, the URL above links to the final published version online at The Art Newspaper, while the PDF attachment shows the slightly fuller, original text, with additional references to the Dodwell and Pomardi exhibition.
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The CSAD team behind the recent study of the Philae obelisk at Kingston Lacy have joined forces with colleagues from the British Museum, UCL, GOM UK and the European Space Agency’s Philae Cometary Mission, to produce a booklet to celebrate their campaign to capture and revise the obelisk’s bilingual inscriptions.
The Philae Obelisk: Tales from Egypt, Dorset and Outer Space is aimed at the general reader, and illustrated throughout in colour. It comprises ten chapters on the life of the obelisk, from its origins in Ptolemaic Egypt and its role in the nineteenth-century decipherment of hieroglyphs, to the recent study with RTI and 3D-imaging technology and eponymous space mission.
This richly-illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each.
By examining Hellenistic kings, queens, public intellectuals, citizen men and women, Africans, servants, paidagogoi, fishermen, peasants, old women, dwarfs, and the disabled, this study provides important new insights into what is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic Art, and into the anxieties of Hellenistic society. In doing so, it not only reconsiders familiar concepts such as the 'individuality' of the civic elite and the apparent passivity of women, but also reveals Hellenistic attitudes towards issues such as old age, race, and child abuse, and explores power, prejudice, and the role of art in both reflecting and enforcing social stereotypes.
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Kings and the Civic Elite
1: The Body Language of Hellenistic Kings
2: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Men
3: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Women
Part II: Lower Status Groups
4: The Body Language of 'Genre' Figures
5: The Body Language of 'Grotesques'
Part III: Synthesis
6: Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society
Appendix 1: The Mime 'problem'
Appendix 2: The Body Language of Sitting
Bibliography
Index
The CSAD team behind the recent study of the Philae obelisk at Kingston Lacy have joined forces with colleagues from the British Museum, UCL, GOM UK and the European Space Agency’s Philae Cometary Mission, to produce a booklet to celebrate their campaign to capture and revise the obelisk’s bilingual inscriptions.
The Philae Obelisk: Tales from Egypt, Dorset and Outer Space is aimed at the general reader, and illustrated throughout in colour. It comprises ten chapters on the life of the obelisk, from its origins in Ptolemaic Egypt and its role in the nineteenth-century decipherment of hieroglyphs, to the recent study with RTI and 3D-imaging technology and eponymous space mission.
This richly-illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each.
By examining Hellenistic kings, queens, public intellectuals, citizen men and women, Africans, servants, paidagogoi, fishermen, peasants, old women, dwarfs, and the disabled, this study provides important new insights into what is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic Art, and into the anxieties of Hellenistic society. In doing so, it not only reconsiders familiar concepts such as the 'individuality' of the civic elite and the apparent passivity of women, but also reveals Hellenistic attitudes towards issues such as old age, race, and child abuse, and explores power, prejudice, and the role of art in both reflecting and enforcing social stereotypes.
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Kings and the Civic Elite
1: The Body Language of Hellenistic Kings
2: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Men
3: The Body Language of the Civic Elite: Women
Part II: Lower Status Groups
4: The Body Language of 'Genre' Figures
5: The Body Language of 'Grotesques'
Part III: Synthesis
6: Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society
Appendix 1: The Mime 'problem'
Appendix 2: The Body Language of Sitting
Bibliography
Index
Link to full explanatory materials by team: https://ulasnews.com/2021/11/25/encounters-with-achilles/
Link to Masséglia's video only: https://youtu.be/QtHx__NkMnw
Please note, the URL above links to the final published version online at The Art Newspaper, while the PDF attachment shows the slightly fuller, original text, with additional references to the Dodwell and Pomardi exhibition.