The Poetics of Greek Ekphrasis
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Matthew Chaldekas
About this book
This volume examines the literary figure of ekphrasis with a particular focus on its role in an overarching poetic or artistic design. As a literary phenomenon with roots in the earliest Greek poetry, ekphrasis has been traditionally defined as Kunstbeschreibung (‘art description’). Recent scholarship has challenged this definition and broadened it to extend beyond descriptions of artworks and beyond poetic contexts. Nevertheless, ekphrasis retains the basic outline of a sensory, especially visual, experience translated into words. As such it invites an audience to engage with a real or imagined object and to reflect on the text-as-object and its artistic construction. The sensory element of ancient ekphrasis allows this literary device to raise questions of perception and cognition, as well as materiality, spatiality, and aesthetics. The papers in this volume engage with a variety of texts and objects which shed new light on the special relationship between ekphrasis and poetry, ekphrasis and art. The material covered here ranges from the Hellenistic period, where ekphrasis experienced its great efflorescence, to Late Antiquity, and it will be of interest to literary scholars, art historians, and archaeologists.
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Matthew Chaldekas and Irmgard Männlein, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction
1 - Part I: Ekphrasis and Hellenistic Poetics
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Poets’ Signatures and Ekphrasis in Inscribed Greek Epigrams
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Leonidas of Tarentum and Hellenistic Ekphrasis
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Pictures in Motion: Descriptive Performance in Hellenistic carmina figurata
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Aratus’ Ekphrastic Skies: Between the Dragon and the Stars Without Name
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The Lover is the Perfect Artist: Praxiteles and the Cnidian Aphrodite in Greek Ekphrastic Epigram
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Imagined Spaces, Imagined Buildings, and the Idea of Architectural Representation: Phantasia in the Wall Paintings of the 2nd Style in Rome and the Vesuvian Cities
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A Library of Memory in a Ptolemaic Reading Primer (P. Cairo J.E. 65445)
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Learning from Illusion: Myron’s Heifer and the Stoic Poetics of Ekphrasis
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Can You Feel It? Ekphrasis and Mind-Reading in Hellenistic Epigram
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Patchwork Voices: Poetics and Aesthetics of Ekphrasis in Ancient Greek Cento-Poetry
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Exegete or Ecstatic Visionary? On the Self-Fashioning of the Poet in the Ekphrasis tabulae mundi of John of Gaza
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Ekphrastic poikilia in Triphiodorus’ Sack of Troy: Towards a Late Antique Poetics of Similarity
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A Guided Tour through a Poetic Collection of Statues: Observations on Christodorus of Coptus’ Ekphrastic Practice
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List of Contributors
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Index Nominum
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Index Rerum
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Index Locorum
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