Abstract
The marble, high relief marine thiasos of the Monuments of the Bulls on Delos is fragmentary and highly weathered. This paper argues that the meaning of this thiasos can be reconstructed from an examination of the archaeological and textual evidence, as well as the historical context, and, given its placement on an Antigonid victory monument, it conveyed key aspects of early Hellenistic royal ideology. The presence of this marine thiasos reinforces Demetrius Poliorcetes’ well-attested links to Poseidon and Dionysus, as well as being subtly allusive to Alexander the Great, powerful symbols of his claim to kingship and the deification that went with it.
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