Viewing and Identification: The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Visual Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Contents vii
4. List of Images xi
5. Introduction xv
6. Section I: Epic and Lyric Poetry
7. War as a spectacle 3
8. The Eyes of Odysseus. Gaze, Desire and Control in the Odyssey 33
9. Blindness and Blinding in the Homeric Odyssey 61
10. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again 88
11. Gazing at heroes in Apollonius’ Argonautica 113
12. Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus 140
13. Section II: Drama
14. Seeing the invisible: Interior Spaces and Uncanny Erinyes in Aeschylus’ Oresteia 163
15. Visual Intertextuality in Ancient Greek Drama: Euripides’ Bacchae and the Use of the Art Media 187
16. “You must not stand in one place”: seeing in Sicilian and Old Attic Comedy 205
17. Visual and non-visual uses of demonstratives with the deictic ι in Greek Comedy 233
18. Section III: Rhetoric, Historiography, and Philosophy
19. Reimagining Helen of Troy: Gorgias and Isocrates on Seeing and Being Seen 245
20. Metahistory and the visual in Herodotus and Thucydides 271
21. Dealing with the Invisible – War in Procopius 289
22. Being or Appearing Virtuous? The Challenges of Leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia 308
23. The Aesthetics of Vision in Plato’s Phaedo and Timaeus 331
24. Section IV: Literary Texts meeting other Media
25. A Picture of Ecphrasis: The Younger Philostratus and the Homeric Shield of Achilles 357
26. Undressing For Artemis: Sensory Approaches to Clothes Dedications in Hellenistic Epigram and in the Cult Of Artemis Brauronia 418
27. Viewing and Identification: The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Visual Culture 464
28. List of Contributors 493
29. Subject Index 497
30. Author Index 503