Going With the Wind: Visu Alizing Volcanic Eruptions in the Pseudo-Vergilian Aetna

Garani, Myrto

doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.2009.tb00749.x

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“…There is no evidence that the Ptolemaic building programme made reference to Proteus. There was, however, an additional reference to the winds in a famous image of Isis Velificans, whose billowing mantle was the prototype for sails: Bruneau (1961), (1963); Castiglione (1970); Ridgway (1990) Garani (2009) 103-21). 23 The shell-trumpet motif first appeared in Hellenistic art, remaining standard in Roman art (Simon, 1967).…”

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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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Twisting in the Wind: Monumental Weathervanes in Classical Antiquity

Lowe

2016

Camb. class. j.

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How to Read a Volcano

Welsh¹

2014

apa

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Readings of the Aetna typically celebrate its scientific virtues while diminishing its qualities as poetry. By exploring the literary aspirations, didactic organization, and persistent textualization of enquiry in the Aetna , this paper argues that the poem seeks to be regarded not as “science in verse” but rather as “poetry as science.” That shift throws light on the poem’s empiricism, its relationship to its didactic predecessors, and the coherence of its diverse contents. The resulting explanation suggests that the Aetna has as much to say about conceptions of poetry, artistry, and the organization of knowledge as it does about first-century science.

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Aetna and Aetnaism: Schiller, Vibrant Matter, and the Phenomenal Regimes of Ancient Poetry

Payne¹

2016

Helios

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Going With the Wind: Visu Alizing Volcanic Eruptions in the Pseudo-Vergilian Aetna

Cited by 5 publications

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Twisting in the Wind: Monumental Weathervanes in Classical Antiquity

Twisting in the Wind: Monumental Weathervanes in Classical Antiquity

How to Read a Volcano

Aetna and Aetnaism: Schiller, Vibrant Matter, and the Phenomenal Regimes of Ancient Poetry

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