TY - BOOK ID - 52455536 TI - Die Odyssee in der Spätantike. Bildliche und literarische Rezeption. PY - 2020 SN - 9782503583792 2503583792 PB - Turnhout : Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - Art, Ancient KW - Appreciation. KW - Homer. KW - Classical antiquities KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Antiquities, Classical KW - Antiquities, Grecian KW - Antiquities, Roman KW - Archaeology, Classical KW - Classical archaeology KW - Roman antiquities KW - Antiquities KW - Archaeological museums and collections KW - Classical philology KW - Classical influences KW - Homer KW - Hóiméar KW - Hūmīrūs KW - Homeros KW - Gomer KW - Omir KW - Omer KW - Omero KW - Ho-ma KW - Homa KW - Homérosz KW - האמער KW - הומירוס KW - הומר KW - הומרוס KW - هومر KW - هوميروس KW - 荷马 KW - Ὅμηρος KW - Гамэр KW - Hamėr KW - Омир KW - Homère KW - Homero KW - 호메로스 KW - Homerosŭ KW - Homērs KW - Homeras KW - Хомер KW - ホメーロス KW - ホメロス KW - Гомер KW - Homeri KW - Hema KW - Pseudo-Homer KW - Pseudo Omero KW - Homerus. KW - Appreciation KW - History. KW - Influence. KW - Greece KW - Antiquities. KW - European literature KW - Medieval literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52455536 AB - Homer's 'Odyssey' is one of the most fascinating and popular texts of all time, inspiring not only artists and poets but also generating a massive amount of research. This book focuses for the first time on the 'Odyssey''s reception in late antiquity, the period that witnesses the transformation of classical culture into the world of the middle ages. The epic's late antique pictorial reception was a selective one. Artists represented but a small canon of topics: Odysseus' encounter with the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, with the dangerous sorceress Circe, with the bewitching song of the Sirens, and with Scylla the man-eater; a handful of iconographically diverse depictions can be related to the hero's return to Ithaca that never attracted as much attention as Odysseus' adventures in the course of the wandering. In all cases, the book stresses the close relation between viewer, or context of reception, and specific form of artistic rendering. Depending on context and intended viewer, Odysseus e.g. can be characterized as a person with whom the man in the street can identify, as a problematic and ridiculous figure, or as an example of virtue. Almost all late antique depictions of Odysseus' wanderings have been found - and produced - in the Western provinces of the Roman Empire. In the course of Roman antiquity, the Greek hero and his wanderings had become what they are still: a part of Western cultural identity. The 'Odyssey''s late antique literary reception was much more multifaceted than the artistic one, as regards topics and geography. In this book, though, the focus will be on those topics that were dealt with in the visual arts, too. Contrasting the late antique pictorial reception with the literary one, and contrasting both with the Homeric epic, reveals the originality of late antiquity's artists and writers. ER -