9 Intervisuality in declamation and sung poetry in imperial Greek cities
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Ewen L. Bowie
Abstract
This chapter explores modes of intervisuality in display speeches, in sung performances of poetry, and in the singing of ceremonial hymns in Greek cities of the second century CE. It suggests that all such performances’ impact on their audiences was modulated by features of the performance environments - portrait-statues of sophists, their classical models, and their rivals; portraits of a poet who was himself performing and (in agonistic contexts) lists of prose and poetic victors in previous competitions; lists of participants in earlier theoriae to the temple of Apollo at Claros where young theoroi sang a hymn in a religious space where these lists were displayed. On the other hand, it is noted that whereas sophists may have been spurred on to greater efforts by seeing nearby portrait-statues of themselves and of their classical models, striking features of their performance space - the sight of the temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, the imperial temple at Cyzicus, the Athenian Acropolis, or the beach and tomb at Marathon - seem not to have been much exploited in their oratorical displays, perhaps because such speeches were intended to be recycled in different locations.
Abstract
This chapter explores modes of intervisuality in display speeches, in sung performances of poetry, and in the singing of ceremonial hymns in Greek cities of the second century CE. It suggests that all such performances’ impact on their audiences was modulated by features of the performance environments - portrait-statues of sophists, their classical models, and their rivals; portraits of a poet who was himself performing and (in agonistic contexts) lists of prose and poetic victors in previous competitions; lists of participants in earlier theoriae to the temple of Apollo at Claros where young theoroi sang a hymn in a religious space where these lists were displayed. On the other hand, it is noted that whereas sophists may have been spurred on to greater efforts by seeing nearby portrait-statues of themselves and of their classical models, striking features of their performance space - the sight of the temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, the imperial temple at Cyzicus, the Athenian Acropolis, or the beach and tomb at Marathon - seem not to have been much exploited in their oratorical displays, perhaps because such speeches were intended to be recycled in different locations.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
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Part I: In limine
- 1 À rebours: intervisuality from the Middle Ages to classical antiquity 15
- 2 From image to theatrical play in Aeschylus’ Oresteia 33
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Part II: Archaic and classical age
- 3 Homer and the art of cinematic warfare 81
- 4 Intervisuality in the Greek symposium 103
- 5 The protohistory of portraits in words and images (sixth–fifth century BCE): tyrants, poets, and artists 121
- 6 Looking at Athens through the lyric lens 149
- 7 The politics of intervisuality 171
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Part III: Hellenistic and imperial age
- 8 The goddess playing with gold 197
- 9 Intervisuality in declamation and sung poetry in imperial Greek cities 213
- 10 Intervisual allusions in Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea Gods 15 235
- 11 Was Philostratus the Elder an admirer of Ovidian enargeia? 255
- 12 ἐκ τῶν πινάκων. Aristaenetus’ intervisual allusions to Philostratus’ art gallery 283
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Part IV: Pointing to Rome
- 13 Ordering the res gestae: observations on the relationship between texts and images in Roman ‘historical’ representations 305
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Appendix
- List of contributors 335
- Index nominum et rerum notabilium 339
- Index locorum 345
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: In limine
- 1 À rebours: intervisuality from the Middle Ages to classical antiquity 15
- 2 From image to theatrical play in Aeschylus’ Oresteia 33
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Part II: Archaic and classical age
- 3 Homer and the art of cinematic warfare 81
- 4 Intervisuality in the Greek symposium 103
- 5 The protohistory of portraits in words and images (sixth–fifth century BCE): tyrants, poets, and artists 121
- 6 Looking at Athens through the lyric lens 149
- 7 The politics of intervisuality 171
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Part III: Hellenistic and imperial age
- 8 The goddess playing with gold 197
- 9 Intervisuality in declamation and sung poetry in imperial Greek cities 213
- 10 Intervisual allusions in Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea Gods 15 235
- 11 Was Philostratus the Elder an admirer of Ovidian enargeia? 255
- 12 ἐκ τῶν πινάκων. Aristaenetus’ intervisual allusions to Philostratus’ art gallery 283
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Part IV: Pointing to Rome
- 13 Ordering the res gestae: observations on the relationship between texts and images in Roman ‘historical’ representations 305
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Appendix
- List of contributors 335
- Index nominum et rerum notabilium 339
- Index locorum 345
