Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature.
Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between 's...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter, Inc.,
2018.
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| ISBN: | 9783110571288 3110571285 9783110569063 311056906X 9783110568998 3110568993 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Foreword; Contents; List of Images; Introduction; Section I: Epic and Lyric Poetry; War as a spectacle; The Eyes of Odysseus. Gaze, Desire and Control in the Odyssey; Blindness and Blinding in the Homeric Odyssey; Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again; Gazing at heroes in Apolloniusâ#x80;#x99; Argonautica; Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus; Section II: Drama; Seeing the invisible: Interior Spaces and Uncanny Erinyes in Aeschylusâ#x80;#x99; Oresteia; Visual Intertextuality in Ancient Greek Drama: Euripidesâ#x80;#x99; Bacchae and the Use of the Art Media.
- Â#x80;#x9C;You must not stand in one placeâ#x80;#x9D;: seeing in Sicilian and Old Attic ComedyVisual and non-visual uses of demonstratives with the deictic ι in Greek Comedy; Section III: Rhetoric, Historiography, and Philosophy; Reimagining Helen of Troy: Gorgias and Isocrates on Seeing and Being Seen; Metahistory and the visual in Herodotus and Thucydides; Dealing with the Invisible â#x80;#x93; War in Procopius; Being or Appearing Virtuous? The Challenges of Leadership in Xenophonâ#x80;#x99;s Cyropaedia; The Aesthetics of Vision in Platoâ#x80;#x99;s Phaedo and Timaeus; Section IV: Literary Texts meeting other Media.
- A Picture of Ecphrasis: The Younger Philostratus and the Homeric Shield of AchillesUndressing For Artemis: Sensory Approaches to Clothes Dedications in Hellenistic Epigram and in the Cult Of Artemis Brauronia; Viewing and Identification: The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Visual Culture; List of Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index.