Gaze, vision, and visuality in ancient Greek literature / edited by Alexandros Kampakoglou and Anna Novokhatko ; with the cooperation of E. Bakola, A. Lamari, F. Maier, C. Michel, C. Orth, and M. Tamiolaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Kampakoglou, Alexandros, 1983- editor.

Novokhatko, Anna A., 1978- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 54.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision in literature.

Gaze in literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Section I Epic and Lyric Poetry

War as a spectacle p. 3 / Françoise Létoublon

The Eyes of Odysseus. Gaze, Desire and Control in the Odyssey p. 33 / Jonas Grethlein

Blindness and Blinding in the Homeric Odyssey p. 61 / Claudia Michel

Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again p. 88 / Helen Lovatt

Gazing at heroes in Apollonius' Argonautica p. 113 / Alexandros Kampakoglou

Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus p. 140 / P. J. Finglass

Section II Drama

Seeing the invisible: Interior Spaces and Uncanny Erinyes in Aeschylus' Oresteia p. 163 / Emmanuela Bakola

Visual Intertextuality in Ancient Greek Drama: Euripides' Bacchae and the Use of the Art Media p. 187 / Anna Lamari

"You must not stand in one place": seeing in Sicilian and Old Attic Comedy p. 205 / Anna Novokhatko

Visual and non-visual uses of demonstratives with the deictic ¿ in Greek Comedy p. 233 / Christian Orth

Section III Rhetoric, Historiography, and Philosophy

Reimagining Helen of Troy: Gorgias and Isocrates on Seeing and Being Seen p. 245 / Ekaterina Chugaeva Haskins

Metahistory and the visual in Herodotus and Thucydides p. 271 / Rosie Harman

Dealing with the Invisible - War in Procopius p. 289 / Felix K. Maier

Being or Appearing Virtuous? The Challenges of Leadership in Xenophon's Cyropaedia p. 308 / Melina Tamiolaki

The Aesthetics of Vision in Plato's Phaedo and Timaeus p. 331 / Andrea Nightingale

Section IV Literary Texts meeting other Media

A Picture of Ecphrasis: The Younger Philostratus and the Homeric Shield of Achilles p. 357 / Michael Squire

Undressing For Artemis: Sensory Approaches to Clothes Dedications in Hellenistic Epigram and in the Cult Of Artemis Brauronia p. 418 / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

Viewing and Identification: The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Visual Culture p. 464 / Nikolaus Dietrich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Gaze, vision, and visuality in ancient Greek literature.

ISBN:

9783110571288

3110571285

9783110571332

3110571331

Publisher Number:

99977121175

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