Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 54)

Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between 'seeing' and 'knowing' in ancient Greek as evidence for this. Seeing was also however often associated with mere appearances, false perception and deception. Gazing and visuality in the ancient Greek world have had a central place in the scholarship for some time now, enjoying an abundance of pertinent discussions and bibliography. If this book differs from the previous publications, it is in its emphasis on diverse genres: the concepts 'gaze', 'vision' and 'visuality' are considered across different Greek genres and media. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) were encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to 'follow the gaze' of the characters in the narrative. By setting a broad time span, the evolution of visual culture in Greece is tracked, while also addressing broader topics such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, and the position of visuality in a hierarchisation of the senses. Intro Foreword Contents List of Images Introduction Section I: Epic and Lyric Poetry War as a spectacle The Eyes of Odysseus. Gaze, Desire and Control in the Odyssey Blindness and Blinding in the Homeric Odyssey Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again Gazing at heroes in Apolloniusâ#x80 #x99 Argonautica Gazing at Helen with Stesichorus Section II: Drama Seeing the invisible: Interior Spaces and Uncanny Erinyes in Aeschylusâ#x80 #x99 Oresteia Visual Intertextuality in Ancient Greek Drama: Euripidesâ#x80 #x99 Bacchae and the Use of the Art Media Â#x80 #x9C You must not stand in one placeâ#x80 #x9D : seeing in Sicilian and Old Attic ComedyVisual and non-visual uses of demonstratives with the deictic Î1 in Greek Comedy Section III: Rhetoric, Historiography, and Philosophy Reimagining Helen of Troy: Gorgias and Isocrates on Seeing and Being Seen Metahistory and the visual in Herodotus and Thucydides Dealing with the Invisible â#x80 #x93 War in Procopius Being or Appearing Virtuous? The Challenges of Leadership in Xenophonâ#x80 #x99 s Cyropaedia The Aesthetics of Vision in Platoâ#x80 #x99 s Phaedo and Timaeus Section IV: Literary Texts meeting other Media A Picture of Ecphrasis: The Younger Philostratus and the Homeric Shield of AchillesUndressing For Artemis: Sensory Approaches to Clothes Dedications in Hellenistic Epigram and in the Cult Of Artemis Brauronia Viewing and Identification: The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Visual Culture List of Contributors Subject Index Author Index Edited By Alexandros Kampakoglou And Anna Novokhatko ; With The Cooperation Of E. Bakola, A. Lamari, F. Maier, C. Michel, C. Orth, And M. Tamiolaki. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.