Drama on the urban stage : architecture, spectacles and power in Hellenistic Pergamon

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dc.contributor.advisorClarke, John R., 1945-en
dc.contributor.advisorDavies, Penelope J. E., 1964-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPapalexandrou, Athanasioen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMoore, Timothy J.en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberUdovicki, Danilo F.en
dc.creatorSoyöz, Ufuken
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-25T20:36:36Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:25:26Z
dc.date.available2012-06-25T20:36:36Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:25:26Z
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2010en
dc.date.updated2012-06-25T20:37:07Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractMy dissertation investigates the production, representation and experience of space in Hellenistic urbanism, architecture, artworks. Considering festivals as spatialized practices, I argue that the Hellenistic urban setting was carefully designed as stages or arenas for the celebration and performance of state ceremonials. To this end, architects used symbolically charged design technologies, such as skenographia which was deeply informed by ancient optical science. I demonstrate that the perspectival developments in architecture, painting and sculpture were closely allied through application of skenographia, forming a unified visual discourse that was highly attentive to the eye of the spectator. I reconstruct the spatial practices in three major sites of Hellenistic Pergamon, namely, the sanctuary of Athena Nikephoros (bringer of Victory), the famous Altar of Zeus, and the sanctuary complex of the theater of Dionysus. Through these reconstructions, I demonstrate that the spatial order of the Hellenistic urban sanctuary facilitated Attalid kings’ appropriation of Pergamene urban setting as a constituent of their sovereign power.en
dc.description.departmentArt Historyen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.slug2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1179en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1179en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectAncient perspectiveen
dc.subjectSkenographiaen
dc.subjectTheatricalityen
dc.subjectHellenistic urban planningen
dc.subjectPergamonen
dc.subjectAttalid dynastyen
dc.subjectHellenistic festivalsen
dc.titleDrama on the urban stage : architecture, spectacles and power in Hellenistic Pergamonen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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