L’épigramme de Posidippe sur la statue de Kairos,AP XVI (Plan.) 275: Image, texte, réalité
-
Francisca Pordomingo
Abstract
Epigram AP XVI (Plan.) 275, by Posidippus, contains an ecphrasis of a statue created by the sculptor Lysippus that is an allegory of Kairos – not in expository form but rather in the form of a dialogue of questions and answers, with the aim of revealing the hidden meaning of its peculiar iconographic features. Lysippus’ statue and Posidippus’ epigram are the oldest testimonies existing in art and in the literary sources for Kairos, which was the subject of other descriptions and of a rich iconography starting at the end of the Hellenistic age. They contain discrepancies in the selection of the features characterizing the concept, which possibly derive from a change in the meaning and the role of the allegory. The text provides an indication of the frequency with which certain abstractions were personified and deified in the Hellenistic age, sometimes to the point of becoming an object of worship.
© by Akademie Verlag, Salamanca, Germany
Articles in the same Issue
- „Un conflitto intestino e una malattia dell’anima“: ΝΟΣΟΣ E ΣΤΑΣΙΣ nel Sofista di Platone (Soph. 228 A 7–8)
- L’épigramme de Posidippe sur la statue de Kairos,AP XVI (Plan.) 275: Image, texte, réalité
- Abschied eines Schülers vom Meister. Der sog. Panegyricus Gregors des Wundertäters auf Origenes: ΛΟΓΟΣ ΧΑΡΙΣΤΗΡΙΟΣ – ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΤΙΚΟΣ – ΛΟΓΟΣ ΣΥΝΤΑΚΤΙΚΟΣ
- Un Excerptum del Quod Animi Mores di Galeno trascritto da Poliziano (clm 807, ff. 74v–75v). Edizione, traduzione e commento
- Maccus vortit barbare? Eine übersehene Lizenzstelle im iambischen Senar
- Der englische Phaon und Ovids Sappho (Her. 15). Elijah Fentons Transformation eines Mythos
- Homère dans la rhétorique latine: l’exemple du de eloquentia et du de orationibus de Fronton
- L’opus florentissimum di Alessandro Severo
- Nestor and Speaking Silence in the Iliad
- Zu Euripides, Helena 420–1
- Una nuova testimonianza sul mito di Fineo di Paraibios
- Lukian verspottet die urchristliche Glossolalie. Ein rätselhafter Satz in Galens Epidemienkommentaren
- Zwei Bemerkungen zur antiken Trompete
- Afranius 95–96 Ribbeck3
- Quint. decl. 312, 3: deos testes?
Articles in the same Issue
- „Un conflitto intestino e una malattia dell’anima“: ΝΟΣΟΣ E ΣΤΑΣΙΣ nel Sofista di Platone (Soph. 228 A 7–8)
- L’épigramme de Posidippe sur la statue de Kairos,AP XVI (Plan.) 275: Image, texte, réalité
- Abschied eines Schülers vom Meister. Der sog. Panegyricus Gregors des Wundertäters auf Origenes: ΛΟΓΟΣ ΧΑΡΙΣΤΗΡΙΟΣ – ΛΟΓΟΣ ΠΡΟΣΦΩΝΗΤΙΚΟΣ – ΛΟΓΟΣ ΣΥΝΤΑΚΤΙΚΟΣ
- Un Excerptum del Quod Animi Mores di Galeno trascritto da Poliziano (clm 807, ff. 74v–75v). Edizione, traduzione e commento
- Maccus vortit barbare? Eine übersehene Lizenzstelle im iambischen Senar
- Der englische Phaon und Ovids Sappho (Her. 15). Elijah Fentons Transformation eines Mythos
- Homère dans la rhétorique latine: l’exemple du de eloquentia et du de orationibus de Fronton
- L’opus florentissimum di Alessandro Severo
- Nestor and Speaking Silence in the Iliad
- Zu Euripides, Helena 420–1
- Una nuova testimonianza sul mito di Fineo di Paraibios
- Lukian verspottet die urchristliche Glossolalie. Ein rätselhafter Satz in Galens Epidemienkommentaren
- Zwei Bemerkungen zur antiken Trompete
- Afranius 95–96 Ribbeck3
- Quint. decl. 312, 3: deos testes?
