The Iliad in a Nutshell
Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 October 2011
- ISBN 9780199602445
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 249x194x35 mm
- Weight 1432 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 170 in-text figures, 24 colour plates 0
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Short description:
A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles major themes through small ones, by relating their production to macroscopic problems of signification in Graeco-Roman antiquity.
MoreLong description:
The Iliad in a Nutshell has two objectives: first, it advances a new critical interpretation of the miniature Iliac tablets, or Tabulae Iliacae; second, it signals their relevance within much bigger issues facing the study of Graeco-Roman art and literature in the twenty-first century. By re-assessing the visual and verbal aesthetics of the miniature, Michael Squire shows how a group of early Imperial Roman objects relate to grander discourses about size, ecphrasis, and representation. The conclusions will be of critical importance not only to students of Graeco-Roman literary and visual culture, but to anyone interested in the cultural history of scale, replication, and visual-verbal relations. The volume is generously illustrated, in both black and white and colour.
S. has taken interpretation of the tablets to a new level ... His account, comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated, has much in common with the visual and literary production of Hellenistic Alexandria: it is highly complex, deeply learned, and knowingly playful.
Table of Contents:
Opening sesame: the book in a nutshell
Putting the pieces together
Mastering Theodorean techne
Choosing your own adventure
Turning the tables
The art and poetics of scale
Ecphrastic circles
Taking the tablets
