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Image and text in Graeco-Roman antiquity
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ISBN: 9780521756013 0521756014 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This work examines the relation between the visual and the verbal spheres, a subject which has been much contested in recent years. It uses the ancient world to rethink our own ideologies of the visual and the verbal and their historiography.


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Archaic Greek epigram and dedication : representation and reperformance
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ISBN: 9780521896306 0521896304 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"By the end of the Archaic period, Greek sanctuaries were bursting with dedications, including many that bore epigrams. This study views dedications comprehensively as sites of ritual efficacy, and in particular it recovers epigrams' reflections of and contributions to that efficacy and restores them to an important place in the panorama of Greek religious practice. In order to reconstruct the Archaic experience of reading and viewing, the book draws on studies of traditional poetic language as resonant with immanent meaning, early Greek poetry as socially and religiously effective performance, and viewing art as an active response of aesthetic appreciation. It argues that reading epigrams while viewing dedications generated effects of religious ritual and poetic performance, and that visual and verbal representation of the dedicator's act of offering associated that rite with similar effects, thereby framing the experiences of readers and viewers as reperformances of the earlier occasion"--

Word and image in ancient Greece
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ISBN: 0748614052 0748614060 0748679855 0748651055 0585442002 9780748614059 9780585442006 9780748679850 9780748651054 9780748614066 Year: 2000 Volume: 1 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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The book, which contains 50 illustrations, makes a coherent and important contribution to a subject of great current interest to classicists of all disciplines.

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