Title: Art and text in ancient Greek culture /
Authors: Goldhill, Simon; Osborne, Robin, 1957-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Art, Greek Historiography.
Contents: Introduction : programmatics and polemics / Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne -- Epiktetos egraphsen : the writing on the cup / François Lissarrague -- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori : the imagery of heroic immortality on Athenian painted vases / Herbert Hoffmann -- Framing the centaur : reading fifth-century architectural sculpture / Robin Osborne -- Timeo Danaos : Amazons in early Greek art and pottery / John Henderson -- The artful eye : vision, ecphrasis and spectacle in Euripidean theatre / Froma Zeitlin -- The naive and knowing eye : ecphrasis and the culture of viewing in the Hellenistic world / Simon Goldhill -- From the pyramids to Pausanias and Piglet : monuments, travel and writing / John Elsner -- Philostratus and the imaginary museum / Norman Bryson.