Image and myth : a history of pictorial narration in Greek art / Luca Giuliani ; translated by Joseph O'Donnell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The pictorial deluge and the study of visual cultures -- Images and texts compared: a diagnosis of contrasts. Revisiting Lessing's Laocoon ; Taking Lessing beyond Lessing -- Images of the world: the eighth century. The shield of Achilleus: description and narration ; Fighting lions ; Seafarer's farewell ; Siamese twins ; Aristocratic life and aristocratic death ; Warriors to sea -- The advent of pictorial narratives in the seventh century. The horse on wheels ; Polyphemos, the defenseless giant ; Epic or folktale? -- Playing with writing in the eighth, seventh, and sixth enturies. Painters learn to write ; Name inscriptions confirming narrative content ; Name inscriptions generating narrative content ; Everyman's armor "Achilleus" armor ; Kleitias and the muses -- Directing the gaze in the sixth and fifth centuries. Polyphemos again: the synchronization of narrative images ; Hektor's corpse: the surprise at dinner ; The hero and the sorceress: moments of suspense ; The murder of Priam: unparalleled barbarity ; The fall of Troy: Combining multiple scenes ; Victor and vanquished: the limits of narration and the possibilities of description -- Images in the pull of text: from the fifth to the fourth century ; Achilleus' wrath and Achilleus' lyre. From oraliture to literature: the emergence of a culture of reading ; Hastening furies? Sleeping furies -- Pictures for readers. The birth of the illustration in the second century. Splendor and misery of an Odyssey picture cycle ; The triumph of texts and the fidelity of images -- Looking back: pitfalls and nodes.

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On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece-but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social,

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