Are images animated? The psychology of statues in Ancient Greece

Schnapp, Alain

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“…The question the Heroicus invites us to ask is whether what the Vinedresser embraces and kisses is Protesilaus' ghostly apparition or his statue. 38 To put the same question in a different form, when the 35 See Schnapp (1994) on 'the psychology of statues Prayers could be written on wax tablets and affixed to statues, as could coins (Lucian, Philops. 20).…”

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STATUE FEVER IN THEHEROICUS

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2022

Camb. class. j.

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Philostratus’ Heroicus betrays an obsession with statues that demands explanation. Just as cult statues of epic heroes litter the contemporary second-century CE landscape, so do they litter Philostratus’ text. No story of a hero is distinct from an ecphrasis of that hero's statue, and in practice a request for the one is a request for the other. Lifeless heroes (Protesilaus first and foremost) become vividly ‘alive’ in the imagination of their devotees and, occasionally, their Zoilean adversaries. As the lines between reality and fantasy blur, Philostratus’ critique of material cultural practices accompanies and fortifies his better known Homerkritik.

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“…59 Gibbs (1976) 62 On the motif of animation in discourses of naturalism see e.g. Schnapp (1994); Spivey (1995); Gutzwiller (2002); Squire (2010). 63 Alföldy (2011) made this identification, noting that the inscriptions are in Greek, and also indicate when the Etesian winds cease: important for the harbour city of Alexandria, but not for Rome.…”

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Twisting in the Wind: Monumental Weathervanes in Classical Antiquity

Lowe

2016

Camb. class. j.

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Monumental weathervanes have been overlooked as a tiny but important genre of ancient bronze sculpture. This is the first collective study of all three definite examples: the so-called ‘triton’ on the Tower of the Winds in Athens, a copy of this somewhere in Rome and the winged female ‘Anemodoulion’ on the Bronze Tetrapylon in Constantinople. I propose to identify the intended subjects of these sculptures as the weather-deities Aiolos and Iris, thereby restoring a part of each monument's original meaning that was unknown to the authors of our ancient written accounts. I also suggest that monumental weathervanes were first invented in Hellenistic Alexandria, which may explain why the Tower of the Winds shared the octagonal design of the Pharos, and why the Anemodoulion was mounted upon a bronze pyramidion.

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“…En nuestra opinión, es un matiz de importancia significativa: a las personas se dedican homenajes, que no las sustituyen aunque consoliden su posición pública; a los dioses se dedican exvotos, objetos cuyo valor sacro se refuerza al identificarlos con la divinidad. La imagen hace presente al propio dios facilitando su relación con el espectador-devoto (Schnapp 1994: 41 ss. ), de ahí que referirse a la imagen equivalga hasta cierto punto a hacerlo al dios en sí.…”

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"Statva, signvm, imago"... el lenguaje de las dedicatorias en la Bética romana

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Recopilamos todas las referencias expresas a estatuas en pedestales y dedicatorias sobre otros soportes, aparecidas en la Bética. Analizamos el sentido preciso de las palabras que significan "estatua" en las inscripciones latinas y su uso en la epigrafía bética. Estas menciones son especialmente frecuentes en la Bética, como consecuencia de la alta valoración de las imágenes de carácter público por parte de la sociedad local.We collect ah l di sti nct references to statues on basis and other inscribed supports found in the province of Baetica. We analyse the specific sense of the words meaning "statue" in Latin inscriptions and their use in Baetican epigraphy. These mentions are specially usual in Baetica, owing to the high valuation of public images by local society. Palabras clavesBética, epigrafía, terminología, escultura, imagen pública. Key wordsBaetica, epigraphy, terminology, sculpture, public image.La revista Spal rinde homenaje en este número a uno de sus fundadores, el Prof. D. Enrique Vallespí, profesor de tantos arqueólogos formados en la Universidad de Sevilla, entre los que me cuento. Aunque mi dedicación a la cultura hispanorromana me aleja considerablemente de su campo de estudio, el Paleolítico, he aprendido y disfrutado, primero como alumna y luego como compañera, de su rigor científico y su amor a la enseñanza universitaria. Por ello deseo sumarme a este homenaje con un trabajo que, después de todo (si se me permite una pequeña broma), también trata sobre piedras, en este caso esculpidas e inscritas.

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Are images animated? The psychology of statues in Ancient Greece

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STATUE FEVER IN THEHEROICUS

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Twisting in the Wind: Monumental Weathervanes in Classical Antiquity

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