Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: In limine
5. 1 À rebours: intervisuality from the Middle Ages to classical antiquity 15
6. 2 From image to theatrical play in Aeschylus’ Oresteia 33
7. Part II: Archaic and classical age
8. 3 Homer and the art of cinematic warfare 81
9. 4 Intervisuality in the Greek symposium 103
10. 5 The protohistory of portraits in words and images (sixth–fifth century BCE): tyrants, poets, and artists 121
11. 6 Looking at Athens through the lyric lens 149
12. 7 The politics of intervisuality 171
13. Part III: Hellenistic and imperial age
14. 8 The goddess playing with gold 197
15. 9 Intervisuality in declamation and sung poetry in imperial Greek cities 213
16. 10 Intervisual allusions in Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea Gods 15 235
17. 11 Was Philostratus the Elder an admirer of Ovidian enargeia? 255
18. 12 ἐκ τῶν πινάκων. Aristaenetus’ intervisual allusions to Philostratus’ art gallery 283
19. Part IV: Pointing to Rome
20. 13 Ordering the res gestae: observations on the relationship between texts and images in Roman ‘historical’ representations 305
21. Appendix
22. List of contributors 335
23. Index nominum et rerum notabilium 339
24. Index locorum 345