Review: Lucien Scubla, Giving life, giving death: psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy (Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise) by Schneider, L

brief historiography of Parthian art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff by Henry P. Colburn

“…The third phase, ‘Grand Narratives’, occurs primarily in the 1930s, when the first major efforts to synthesize Parthian art were undertaken by Arthur Upham Pope, Ernst Herzfeld, Neilson Debevoise and Michael Rostovtzeff. While Pope and Herzfeld treated Parthian art as a nadir between the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires, a view adopted in many subsequent studies, Debevoise and Rostovtzeff considered it to be a vibrant and original phenomenon.…”
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