Empowering Images: Negotiating the Identity of Authority through Material Culture in the Hellenistic East, 140-38 BCE

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dc.contributor.advisorVenit, Marjorie Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorHwang, HyoSil Suzyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-11T05:48:32Z
dc.date.available2014-10-11T05:48:32Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the late-second to first century BCE, Tigranes II the Great of Armenia (140-55 BCE), Antiochos I Theos of Commagene (ca. 86-38 BCE), and Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus (134-63 BCE) employed multivalent imagery to legitimize their positions and assert their authority amid the changing political landscape of the Hellenistic East. Each king's visual program shaped and reflected the political dynamics of his reign, the mixed cultural identity of his population, and the threats posed by foreign powers. As the kings negotiated their positions within an environment rife with military conflict and in territories composed of multi-ethnic populations, they created nuanced visual programs that layered ties to multiple historic precedents and religious authorities. Each king's program intended to communicate differently to diverse audiences - both foreign and domestic - while simultaneously asserting the king's position as the ruler of a powerful and unified realm. This dissertation considers the rulers' creation and dissemination of such imagery, revealing new dimensions of ruling ideologies and visual culture in the Late Hellenistic East.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2QS37
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/15766
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAuthorityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHellenisticen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledKingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPropagandaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRuleren_US
dc.titleEmpowering Images: Negotiating the Identity of Authority through Material Culture in the Hellenistic East, 140-38 BCEen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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