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Author Kampakoglou, Alexandros

Title Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2018

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Description 1 online resource (536 pages)
Series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Ser. ; v. 54
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Ser
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
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Subject Vision in literature.
Gaze in literature.
Greek literature -- History and criticism
Gaze in literature
Greek literature
Vision in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Novokhatko, Anna
ISBN 9783110571288
3110571285