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Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2017. Meletemata Series, No. 75. In English. Soft cover, 24 cm, 472 pp., ill.; net weight 2120 gr.ISBN: 978-960-9538-64-0.
Brings together for the first time a group of 70 decorated funerary reliefs from the region between the Nestos and the Hebros rivers, dated between the sixth century B.C. and the third century A.D. Typological, epigraphic and iconographical analysis underlines the various influences that permeated this region with preeminent artistic predilections from the northeastern Aegean and Asia Minor. Major iconographic themes, such as the rider and the funerary banquet prevail between the first century B.C. and the third century A.D., whereas popular features of the Roman repertoire are, so far, not common east of the Nestos river. An overview of the iconography used in other parts of ancient Thrace, especially after the first century B.C., underlines the conclusion that no one, single 'Thracian style' can be recognized in the art of the… Leer más
