Art and text in ancient Greek culture

by Simon Goldhill

These specially commissioned essays offer new and exciting perspectives on the interrelationships between verbal and visual signs in ancient Greek culture. The first section of the book focuses on fifth-century culture, examining the use that painters of pots make of writing, the ways in which images on pots can be read systematically, the ways in which the framing of architectural sculpture determines interpretation, and the exploitation of set-piece descriptions (ecphrases) in the theatre. The second section turns to Hellenistic culture, with essays on the poetic exploitation of riddling...

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