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The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography

Description: Title: The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography Author: Stephenson, Paul Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Binding: Hardcover Pages: 304 Dimensions: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d Product Weight: 1.4 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780190209063 The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon defeated by Zeus, and also Python slain by Apollo. The column was created after the Battle of Plataia (479 BC), where the sky was dominated by serpentine constellations and by the spiralling tails of the Milky Way. It was erected as a votive for Apollo and as a monument to the victory of the united Greek poleis over the Persians. It is as a victory monument that the column was transplanted to Constantinople and erected in the hippodrome. The column remained a monument to cosmic victory through centuries, but also took on other meanings. Through the Byzantine centuries these interpretation were fundamentally Christian, drawing upon serpentine imagery in Scripture, patristic and homiletic writings. When Byzantines saw the monument they reflected upon this multivalent serpentine symbolism, but also the fact that it was a bronze column. For these observers, it evoked the Temple's brazen pillars, Moses' brazen serpent, the serpentine tempter of Genesis (Satan), and the beast of Revelation. The column was inserted into Christian sacred history, symbolizing creation and the end times. The most enduring interpretation of the column, which is unrelated to religion, and therefore survived the Ottoman capture of the city, is as a talisman against snakes and snake-bites. It is this tale that was told by travellers to Constantinople throughout the Middle Ages, and it is this story that is told to tourists today who visit Istanbul. In this book, Paul Stephenson twists together multiple strands to relate the cultural biography of a unique monument.

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Book Title: The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Serpent Column : a Cultural Biography

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Subject: Sculpture & Installation, Archaeology, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Customs & Traditions

Item Height: 1.2 in

Publication Year: 2016

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 22.4 Oz

Item Length: 5.4 in

Subject Area: Art, Philosophy, Social Science

Author: Paul Stephenson

Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture Ser.

Item Width: 8.4 in

Format: Hardcover

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