Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature /

Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature / / ed. by Anna Novokhatko, Alexandros Kampakoglou.

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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 ‘seeing...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bakola, Emmanuela,
Finglass, P. J.,
Grethlein, Jonas,
Harman, Rosie,
Haskins, Ekaterina Chugaeva,
Kampakoglou, Alexandros,
Lamari, Anna,
Lovatt, Helen,
Létoublon, Françoise,
Maier, Felix K.,
Michel, Claudia,
Nightingale, Andrea,
Novokhatko, Anna,
Orth, Christian,
Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia,
Squire, Michael,
Tamiolaki, Melina,
HerausgeberIn:
Kampakoglou, Alexandros,
Novokhatko, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (509 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Apollonius’ Argonautica
  • Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus
  • Section II: Drama
  • Seeing the invisible: Interior Spaces and Uncanny Erinyes in Aeschylus’ Oresteia
  • Visual Intertextuality in Ancient Greek Drama: Euripides’ Bacchae and the Use of the Art Media
  • “You must not stand in one place”: seeing in Sicilian and Old Attic Comedy
  • Visual 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 – War in Procopius
  • Being or Appearing Virtuous? The Challenges of Leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
  • The Aesthetics of Vision in Plato’s Phaedo and Timaeus
  • Section IV: Literary Texts meeting other Media
  • A Picture of Ecphrasis: The Younger Philostratus and the Homeric Shield of Achilles
  • Undressing 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

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