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Art during the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) The military campaign of Alexander the Great in the East instigated the settlement […]
The Thracian helmet of the Hellenistic period owes its distinctive form and construction to its evolution from the Archaic Thracian helmets of Phygian cap form. The use of iron and multi-part helme…
My version of the Hellenistic Successor Phalangites. These are hard plastic 28mm figures from Victrix Miniatures. Painted by Bob Hornsby
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Hellenistic Mathematics started developing by the 3rd Century BCE, in the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great.
Hellenistic architecture, in a manner similar to Hellenistic sculpture, focuses on theatricality, drama, and the experience of the viewer. Public spaces and temples were created with the people in mind, and so were built on a new, monumental scale.
We are loving all things Hellenistic at Abigail Ahern. Think rustic handmade vases that add a big dollop of decorative sculpture to your home decor.
To speak of military developments in the Hellenistic period is to assume that significant changes in warfare or technology justify a separate categ...
Art during the Hellenistic Period (323-31 BC) The military campaign of Alexander the Great in the East instigated the settlement […]
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Mosaic glass, 2nd-1st century B.C.E. D. 13 cm. A shallow basin cast from mosaic glass fragments aligned in the mold. The mouth rim stands up slightly, while the rounded vessel walls make a smooth transition to the base. The vessel body is made up of cut slices of fused yellowish brown translucent, purple translucent and white glass, which have been combined into four types of swirl and stripe patterns. Opaque fragments of yellow, white, blue and yellowish green glass have been scattered among the mosaic pieces. A band of yellowish brown translucent glass wrapped in a radiating pattern of white glass has been adhered to the mouth edge. Both inner and outer surfaces have been polished to a smooth finish. The swirling and striped patterns of translucent and opaque glass were some creates a variety of different affects on the vessel surface of the distinctive motifs of the Hellenistic period. The combination of translucent and opaque glass. Text and image from the website of the Miho Museum.
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Cast glass, 3rd-2nd century B.C.E. H. 20 cm. Large footed cup cast from translucent bluish green glass. Cup is semi-spherical. The edges of the foot spread out and the center is deeply hollowed. A short circular cylinder connects the foot to the cup. The inner edge of the mouth rim is circled by a relatively thick horizontally carved groove. The center of the outer surface of the cup is circled by five thin, horizontal grooves, while three more of these grooves are cut on the body of the cup close to the foot, and then two more at the upper edge of the foot's expanse and one at the edge. Both the inner and outer surfaces of the cup are smoothly finished and there are particularly noticeable traces of polishing on the foot area. Examples excavated from the Canosa tombs in southeastern Italy are the oldest known group of cast glass works from the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period, and in that series of works can be found a large footed cup which has the same shape foot as this cup. The glass vessels in the Canosa group show superior techniques and aesthetic achievement, and we know they were expensive luxury items. Many of the shapes of these items, like the glass vessels of Achaemenid dynasty Persia, were designed as copies of metallic vessel shapes, and they most likely adorned the banquet tables of the wealthy along side gorgeous precious metal vessels. This kind of large footed cup may have been used as a krater, the vessel used to mix wine with water. Text and image from the website of the Miho Museum.
From classical columns to Mediterranean palettes, explore the reviving '70s Greek-inspired Hellenistic interior design trend.
A scene of departure. Perhaps from a funerary monument. Local stone. From Lucera, loc. Madonna della Spiga (Monte Sacro). 3rd c. BCE. Museo di Archeologia Urbana "G. Fiorelli", Lucera (FG), Puglia, Italy.
This small and charming figurine of an animal leaping into action may once have been part of a small sculptural group, or an attachment on a bronze vessel. His face is particularly animated, his eyes and mouth wide in fear of whatever he is leaping away from.
Following Alexander's death, control passed into the hands of the Lagid (Ptolemaic) Dynasty; they built Greek cities across their empire and gave land grants across Egypt to immigrants from Greece and the wider Greek world.
