When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century…
"When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method--and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century …
"Proposes a new framework for the study of (ancient) visual culture based on engagement with Greek and Roman mythological imagery, appealing to those seeking to better their understanding of Greek and Roman cultural history; relates historiography and method development in Class…
"When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method--and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century …
"Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies also say a great deal more. Indeed, the majority of cosmologies, ancient and modern, e…
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these myths--his mythologique; he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal. Despit…
Myth - Scholia - Greek tragedy - Byzantine epigram - Pliny the Elder - Cicero - Seneca - Seferis' existential poetry - Goll's postdramatic theatre - Müller - Irish drama - Mouawad's play - Jelinek - refugees' crisis - Staging death - Decorum - Polish theatre - German theatre - T…
