Ephesus and the Amazons Remembering or Recreating the Early History of a Greek Polis in the 5th Century BC By Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup

https://www.academia.edu/35609035/Ephesus_and_the_Amazons_Remembering_or_Recreating_the_Early_History_of_a_Greek_Polis_in_the_5th_Century_BC?nav_from=73f18cf3-3095-444a-9c79-0e5e3a596dc0 This essay examines the "Amazon monument of Ephesus", because the “meaning” of prominent freestanding Greek monuments was often more explicit than the “meaning” of architectural sculpture. If we want to understand the ancient cityscapes we need to take these monuments into account and rekindle the interest in Roman copies of Greek monuments; not so much as evidence of Greek sculptural style but of the Greek visual landscape. This paper is published in its final version in: Cityscapes and Monuments of Western Asia Minor, Memories and Identities. Eds. Eva Mortensen and Birte Poulsen. ...