Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.
    Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.

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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.
    Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.

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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

by Graham Zanker
Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art

by Graham Zanker

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Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.
    Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299194505
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 12/15/2003
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Graham Zanker is professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He is the author of The Heart of Achilles and Realism in Alexandrian Poetry.

Table of Contents

Illustrationsix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Abbreviationsxiii
1.Aims, Approaches, and Samples3
2.Full Presentation of the Image27
3.Reader or Viewer Supplementation72
4.Reader or Viewer Integration103
5.An Eye for the New: Poetic Genres, Iconographical Traditions124
6.Viewing Pleasure and Pain144
Notes171
Bibliography201
Index215
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