Search for dissertations about: "Kyzikos"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word Kyzikos.

2. 1. Emotions carved in stone? The social handling of death as expressed on Hellenistic grave stelai from Smyrna and Kyzikos

   Author : Sandra Karlsson; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
   Keywords : Study of emotions; funerary reliefs; Hellenistic age; funerary epitaphs; Smyrna; Kyzikos; iconography; semiotics; epigraphical studies; social conventions; visual therapy; emotional communities;

   Abstract : This study deals with expressions of emotions in Hellenistic funerary art. The material for this study consists of 245 grave reliefs from the Greek cities of Smyrna and Kyzikos in Western Asia Minor; mostly dated to the second century BCE. READ MORE