Contents
Preface: The Pictorial Deluge and the Study of Visual Culture
Images and Texts Compared
Revisiting Lessing’s Laocoon
Taking Lessing beyond Lessing
Images of the World
The Shield of Achilles
Fighting Lions
Seafarer’s Farewell
Aristocratic Life and Aristocratic Death
Warriors to Sea
The Advent of Pictorial Narratives in the Seventh Century
The Horse on Wheels
Polyphemos, the Defenseless Giant
Epic or Folktale?
Playing with Writing in the Eighth, Seventh, and Sixth Centuries
Painters Learn to Write
Name Inscriptions Confirming Narrative Content
Name Inscriptions Generating Narrative Content
Everyman’s Armor—Achilles’ Armor
Kleitias and the Muses
Directing the Gaze in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries
Polyphemos Again
Hektor’s Corpse
The Hero and the Sorceress
The Murder of Priam
The Fall of Troy
Victor and Vanquished
Images in the Pull of Text
Achilles’ Wrath and Achilles’ Lyre
From Oraliture to Literature
Hastening Furies—Sleeping Furies
Pictures for Readers
Splendor and Misery of an Odyssey Picture Cycle
The Triumph of Texts and the Fidelity of Images
Looking Back
Appendix - Excursus 1
Appendix - Excursus 2
Notes
Bibliography
Name & Subject Index
Index of Ancient Greek Artworks