The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity

Petrovic, Andrej; Petrović, Ivana; Thomas, Edmund

doi:10.1163/9789004379435

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“…we consider it crucial to place emphasis on what can be known -the topography of mythographic texts -and not on what is less in evidence -the particular goals of individual mythographers. For the same reasons, we take into account that we have, in this case, the only manuscript that gives us access to Antoninus Liberalis' text, and take care to describe it precisely, as do modern scholars when they edit epigraphical texts; see, for the ancient tradition, Petrovic et al (2019). 32 The Metamorphoses is however inserted into external textual networks in two ways.…”

Section: Mythographic Topography: Representation and The Thing Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mythographical topography, textual materiality and the (dis)ordering of myth: the case of Antoninus Liberalis

Delattre

Hawes

2020

J. Hell. Stud.

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Abstract:This article introduces a new analytical framework, ‘mythographic topography’. This approach recognizes the materiality of mythographic writing as preserved by the manuscript tradition and the significance of the spatial dynamics it produces. Mythographic topography encompasses both the formal properties of textual organization and how these shape the reader’s imaginative experience of space and narrative. As an analytical framework, it involves interrogating a text according to three categories (each an ancient meaning of topos): its arrangement of textual passages, its use of space and its activation of narrative tropes. Using the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis as a case study, we demonstrate how this text requires the reader to consider issues of order, disorder and reordering within a culturally familiar narrative paradigm.

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Section: Mythographic Topography: Representation and The Thing Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mythographical topography, textual materiality and the (dis)ordering of myth: the case of Antoninus Liberalis

Delattre

Hawes

2020

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…264ff on Hellenistic-Mauryan communication; on Canepa's work see also n.73 above. Petrovic, Petrovic, and Thomas 2018 in the introduction looks to McLuhan for support in his exploration of the significance of material aspects of all types of written communication -but the terminology is not widely adopted in the volume.…”

Section: Inscriptions As Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%