The Last Statues of Antiquity

Spanning centuries and the vastness of the Roman Empire, The Last Statues of Antiquity is the first comprehensive survey of Roman honorific statues in the public realm in Late Antiquity. Drawn from a major research project and corresponding online database that collates all the available evidence for the "statue habit" across the Empire from the late third century AD onwards, the volume examines where, how, and why statues were used, and why these important features of urban life began to decline in number before eventually disappearing around AD 600. Adopting a detailed comparative approach, the collection explores variation between different regions--including North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Near East--as well as individual cities, such as Aphrodisias, Athens, Constantinople, and Rome. A number of thematic chapters also consider the different kinds of honorand, from provincial governors and senators, to women and cultural heroes. Richly illustrated, the volume is the definitive resource for studying the phenomenon of late-antique statues. The collection also incorporates extensive references to the project's database, which is freely accessible online.

R. R. R. Smith is Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford.

Bryan Ward-Perkins is Director of the Ertegun Program and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Oxford.

Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Contributors
1. Statue Practice in the late Roman Empire: Numbers, Costumes, and Style, R. R. R. Smith
2. Statues at the End of Antiquity: The Evidence of the Inscribed Bases, Bryan Ward-Perkins
REGIONS
3. Italy, Carlos Machado
4. North Africa, Gabriel de Bruyn and Carlos Machado
5. Hispania, Gallia, and Raetia, Christian Witschel
6. Danube Provinces and North Balkans, Ulrich Gehn and Bryan Ward-Perkins
7. Greek Mainland and Islands, Ulrich Gehn
8. Asia Minor, Julia Lenaghan
9. Egypt, Near East, and Cyprus, Ulrich Gehn and Bryan Ward-Perkins
CITIES
10. Rome, Carlos Machado with Julia Lenaghan
11. Constantinople, Ulrich Gehn and Bryan Ward-Perkins
12. Aphrodisias, R. R. R. Smith
13. Ephesus, Joanna Auinger and Alexander Sokolicek
14. Corinth, Amelia Brown
15. Athens, Ulrich Gehn
16. Lepcis Magna, Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo
17. Gortyn, Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo
CHRONOLOGY, HONORANDS, STYLE
18. Third Century, from Alexander Severus to Carinus, Silja Spranger
19. Provincial Governors and Senatorial Office-holders, Marietta Horster
20. Women, Kathrin Schade
21. Cultural Heroes, Julia Lenaghan
22. Fourth-century Portrait Sculpture and Re-use, Julia Lenaghan
23. Portrait Style, Marianne Bergmann and Martin Kovacs
24. The End of the Statue Habit, AD 284-620, Bryan Ward-Perkins
Concordance
Bibliography
Index