- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That
- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-<span xml:lang="ell">εύς</span>
- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early <i>Polis</i>: A Reappraisal
- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (<i>Imagines</i> I.1)
- 5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?
- 6 Homer and the Sculptors
- 7 Potters, <i>Hippeis</i> and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC
- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic <i>Dichterweihe</i>?
- 11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch
- 12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily
- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)
- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great
- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View
- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s <i>Phryges</i> and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh
- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation
- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece
- Index
Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1)
Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1)
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- (p.57) 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1)
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- The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
- Author(s):
Michael Squire
Jaś Elsner
, John Bintliff, Keith Rutter- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
In his seminal 1998 book, Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art, Anthony Snodgrass makes no mention of the Imagines, or indeed of its author, the Elder Philostratus. As Anthony would no doubt remind us, one would need have a very late (probably Byzantine) view of ‘Greek art’ to conceive of Philostratus alongside the word ‘early’. Yet the Imagines, written at around the beginning of the third century ad, provides one of the most scintillating accounts of ancient painting to survive from pre-Christian antiquity; it probes the very categories of ‘text’ and ‘picture’ that defined Snodgrass’ project.
Keywords: Homer, Philostratus, Imagines
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That
- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-<span xml:lang="ell">εύς</span>
- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early <i>Polis</i>: A Reappraisal
- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (<i>Imagines</i> I.1)
- 5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?
- 6 Homer and the Sculptors
- 7 Potters, <i>Hippeis</i> and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC
- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic <i>Dichterweihe</i>?
- 11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch
- 12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily
- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)
- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great
- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View
- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s <i>Phryges</i> and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh
- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation
- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece
- Index
