Yes, yesterday's social media. Where dreams and hopes of the rulers are enunciated through propaganda.
I was just looking at this book today, which looks similar to the book from the OP. 400 years of hellenistic portraits. Has anyone read this one yet? And if so, what were your thoughts?
Does anyone have Winzer, Antike portraitmünzen der Perser und Greichen aus vor-hellenistischer Zeit (Zeitraum ca. 510-322 v.Chr.)? I tried to buy it but can't find a seller who will ship to the United States. Who is in it? I am looking for something that includes the more obscure satraps and unknown kings.
The "Ancient Selfies" book is a good, inexpensive book with decent (although small) photos, but if Pangerl's book on Hellenistic coin portraits is anything like his book on Roman coin portraits (which I own) -- and it appears to be, from the descriptions I've looked at -- it's nothing like "Ancient Selfies." Pangerl's books are large, high-end "coffee-table" style art books, each with hundreds of very large color photos, and each sells for a list price of £65.00 (close to $100). The only drawback of the Roman coin book for me is that most of the essays are in German, although the book does, at least, have brief English-language abstracts of all of them. And you don't need to read German to enjoy and appreciate the glorious photographs! I assume that the same is true of the Hellenistic coin book. See these descriptions from the publisher, Spink. For the Roman coin book: http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php? route=product/product&product_id=418. And for the Hellenistic coin book: http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=735. Here is a mildly critical, but positive overall, review of the Hellenistic coin book in Coins Weekly: https://coinsweekly.com/hellenistic-portraits/ . It certainly has nothing but good things to say about the photography! And here is the same publication's overwhelmingly positive review of Pangerl's Roman coin portrait book: https://coinsweekly.com/500-years-of-roman-portrait-art/. PS: So far as I know, neither Pangerl book has a Kindle version, and books like this aren't really meant to be read on Kindle anyway. It would be a poor substitute for the actual books.
