Prologue

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter C
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue xi
5. 1 Between Mimesis and Divine Power Visuality in the Greco-Roman World 1
6. Part 1 Ancient Discourses of Art
7. 2. Image and Ritual Pausanias and the Sacred Culture of Greek Art 29
8. 3. Discourses of Style Connoisseurship in Pausanias and Lucian 49
9. 4. Ekphrasis and the Gaze From Roman Poetry to Domestic Wall Painting 67
10. Part 2 Ways of Viewing
11. 5. Viewing and Creativity Ovid’s Pygmalion as Viewer 113
12. 6. Viewer as Image Intimations of Narcissus 132
13. 7. Viewing and Decadence Petronius’ Picture Gallery 177
14. 8. Genders of Viewing Visualizing Woman in the Casket of Projecta 200
15. 9. Viewing the Gods The Origins of the Icon in the Visual Culture of the Roman East 225
16. 10. Viewing and Resistance Art and Religion in Dura Europos 253
17. Epilogue From Diana via Venus to Isis Viewing the Deity with Apuleius 289
18. Bibliography 303
19. Index Locorum 335
20. General Index 343