Introduction: The Genres of Ekphrasis

Elsner, Jaś

doi:10.1017/s0048671x00001338

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“…Among the many contributions devoted to ekphrasis, seeBartsch 1989;Goldhill 1994 and2007;Elsner 2002;Whitmarsh 2002;Squire 2009; Webb 2009 (181-185 for Heliodorus).22 Goldhill 1994, 205.23 Elsner 2002, 1. 24 SeeBartsch 1989, 120-122;Hardie 1998;Whitmarsh 2002; Webb 2009, 184-185.…”

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The sanctuary of Delphi in Heliodorus’ <i>Aethiopica</i>: Between material culture and intertextuality

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2020

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Divine and religious elements are an important part of Greek novels. For this reason, my paper aims to investigate the description of the sanctuary of Delphi in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica by comparing it with other literary and material sources, in order to distinguish literary elements from ones more closely related to the historical reality of the Imperial age. The paper argues that Heliodorus’ reconstruction of the sanctuary is in line with contemporary material evidence, except for some aspects based on literary sources. Authors of the Classical era, such as Euripides and Pindar, are fruitfully placed alongside authors closer to Heliodorus’ age, such as Plutarch and Philostratus. This overlap reflects the discrepancy between the dramatic date of the novel (4th century BC), to which Heliodorus consistently tries to keep throughout the novel with the aid of his Classical sources, and the date of composition of the novel (4th century AD), which places it in the context of the ‘hellenization’ and ‘paganization’ promoted by Emperor Julian. The result is a dynamic and realistic reconstruction of Delphi that brings the idealized portrait of Classical Greece and its authors to life.

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The sanctuary of Delphi in Heliodorus’ <i>Aethiopica</i>: Between material culture and intertextuality

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2020

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“…Goldhill (1994, 2007); Elsner (1995), 21–48; Payne (2001), 277f. ; Gutzwiller (2002); Zanker (2004), 7–12; Porter (2011); Dufallo (2013); Petrain (2014), 37–44; as well as the papers introduced by Elsner (2002).…”

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“…12.The cycle of epigrams on Myron's Cow ( AP 9.713–42, 793–8) has become something of a locus communis for discussion of ecphrastic epigram, and provides examples for most common Hellenistic epigrammatic modes. See Gutzwiller (1998), 245–50; Elsner (2002), 13; Goldhill (2007), 15–19; Squire (2010). …”

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THE POETICS OF LATER GREEK ECPHRASIS: CHRISTODORUS COPTUS, THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGYAND THEPERIOCHAEOF NONNUS’DIONYSIACA

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2018

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There is increasing interest in what might be thought ‘special’ about late antique poetry. Two volumes of recent years have focused on Latin poetry of this time, Classics Renewed: Reception and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity edited by Scott McGill and Joseph Pucci (2016) as well as The Poetics of Late Latin Literature edited by Jaś Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato (2017), while it has become increasingly acceptable to remark on late antiquity as a cultural period in its own right, rather than a point of transition between high antiquity and the middle ages. Greek poetry of late antiquity has yet to receive the level of attention offered to Latin literature of this time, and so it is to help answer the question of what may be thought special about late antique Greek poetry that I here discuss the poetics of later Greek ecphrasis.

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“…3.A standard definition found in the ancient instructional materials ( progymnasmata ) dating from the first to fourth centuries CE, as cited and translated by Elsner (2002), 1; see Goldhill (2007) and Squire (2013) for further discussion.…”

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