Image and myth a history of pictorial narration in Greek art 9780226297651, 9780226025902, 0226297659

Table of contents :
The pictorial deluge and the study of visual cultures --
Images and texts compared: a diagnosis of contrasts. Revisiting Lessing's Laocoon
Taking Lessing beyond Lessing --
Images of the world: the eighth century. The shield of Achilleus: description and narration
Fighting lions
Seafarer's farewell
Siamese twins
Aristocratic life and aristocratic death
Warriors to sea --
The advent of pictorial narratives in the seventh century. The horse on wheels
Polyphemos, the defenseless giant
Epic or folktale? --
Playing with writing in the eighth, seventh, and sixth enturies. Painters learn to write
Name inscriptions confirming narrative content
Name inscriptions generating narrative content
Everyman's armor "Achilleus" armor
Kleitias and the muses --
Directing the gaze in the sixth and fifth centuries. Polyphemos again: the synchronization of narrative images
Hektor's corpse: the surprise at dinner
The hero and the sorceress: moments of suspense
The murder of Priam: unparalleled barbarity
The fall of Troy: Combining multiple scenes
Victor and vanquished: the limits of narration and the possibilities of description --
Images in the pull of text: from the fifth to the fourth century
Achilleus' wrath and Achilleus' lyre. From oraliture to literature: the emergence of a culture of reading
Hastening furies? Sleeping furies --
Pictures for readers. The birth of the illustration in the second century. Splendor and misery of an Odyssey picture cycle
The triumph of texts and the fidelity of images --
Looking back: pitfalls and nodes.

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