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The Portraits of Alexander1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Margarete Bieber
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The unusual personality of Alexander the Great is reflected in an extraordinary number of portraits. They begin in his early youth, and do not end with his death. They continue during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and all subsequent periods down to modern times. The portraits of Alexander not only reflect the different phases of his short life but become an artistic motif for all following periods.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , October 1965 , pp. 183 - 188
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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page 184 note 1 This is the view first expressed by Studniczka, , Arch. Jb. ix (1894), 226 ffGoogle Scholar. It was rejected by Judeich, ibid., x (1895), 165 ff., who thought the sarcophagus that of one of Alexander's Greek friends. Later scholars are divided on the question but most authorities, like the author, accept the identification as Abdalonymus. See Beazley, J. D. and Ashmole, Bernard, Greek Sculpture and Painting (Cambridge, 1932), 59, fig. 134.Google Scholar

page 185 note 1 Bieber, M., Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age (second enlarged ed., Columbia University Press, New York, 1961), 72 f., note 5, figs. 250–1.Google Scholar