List of Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Abbreviations
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Ekphrasis and Hellenistic Poetics
8. Poets’ Signatures and Ekphrasis in Inscribed Greek Epigrams 15
9. Leonidas of Tarentum and Hellenistic Ekphrasis 45
10. Pictures in Motion: Descriptive Performance in Hellenistic carmina figurata 69
11. Aratus’ Ekphrastic Skies: Between the Dragon and the Stars Without Name 89
12. Part II: Ekphrastic Visualization In and Out of the Mind
13. The Lover is the Perfect Artist: Praxiteles and the Cnidian Aphrodite in Greek Ekphrastic Epigram 117
14. Imagined Spaces, Imagined Buildings, and the Idea of Architectural Representation: Phantasia in the Wall Paintings of the 2nd Style in Rome and the Vesuvian Cities 141
15. A Library of Memory in a Ptolemaic Reading Primer (P. Cairo J.E. 65445) 193
16. Learning from Illusion: Myron’s Heifer and the Stoic Poetics of Ekphrasis 217
17. Can You Feel It? Ekphrasis and Mind-Reading in Hellenistic Epigram 255
18. Part III: Developments in Late Antique Ekphrasis
19. Patchwork Voices: Poetics and Aesthetics of Ekphrasis in Ancient Greek Cento-Poetry 275
20. Exegete or Ecstatic Visionary? On the Self-Fashioning of the Poet in the Ekphrasis tabulae mundi of John of Gaza 289
21. Ekphrastic poikilia in Triphiodorus’ Sack of Troy: Towards a Late Antique Poetics of Similarity 313
22. A Guided Tour through a Poetic Collection of Statues: Observations on Christodorus of Coptus’ Ekphrastic Practice 339
23. List of Contributors 361
24. Index Nominum
25. Index Rerum
26. Index Locorum