Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781474462358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Amy Lather

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter One, A Beautiful Mind: Patterns of Thought and the Decoration of Textiles; I. Poikilia, Polychromy, and Perception; IIa. Sensing Fabric in the Acropolis Korai; IIb. Visualizing Fabric and Constructing Images in Vase Painting; III. Putting the “Hand” into Handicraft: Poikilia and (feminine) thought patterns; Chapter Two, Brazen Charm: The Vitality of Archaic Armor: I. Affective Armor; Ia. Bronze as Light; Ib. Heavy Metal: The Sound of Battle; IIa. Bodies Nonhuman and Superhuman; IIb. A Wall of Armor, A Human Boulder, and Brazen Voices; IIc. The Armor of Achilles and Blazing Weaponry; III. Life in/of Metal; Chapter Three, Mind Tools: Art, Artifice, and Animation: Ia. Paradoxical Poikilia: Labyrinthine Passageways; Ib. Poikilia in Miniature; Ic. A Wonder to Behold: Pandora in the Theogony; IIa. Intelligent Things; IIb. Hephaestus’ Tools; IIIc. The Ships of the Phaeacians and Other “Smart” Objects; III. Conclusion: Poikilia and the Riddle of Speech; Chapter Four, The Protean Shape of Lyric Poikilia: I. The Imaginative Matter of Poikilia: Scintillating Objects in Sappho; Alcman, and Anacreon; IIa. Pindaric Poikilia and the Victorious Imagination; IIb. Pythian 8, Pythian 10, and Olympian 1; IIc. Olympian 6, Nemean 5, and Nemean 4; III. Visible and Audible Movement: Poikilia’s Scintillating Shape; Chapter Five, M?tis and the Mechanics of the Mind: I. Crafting Cognition with Prometheus; II. M?tis, the Mother of Invention; III. Social Media and the Embodiment(s) of Poikilom?tis: A Viewing Guide; IV. Conclusions; Chapter Six, The Materiality of Feminine Guile: I. Hera and the kestos himas; IIa. Goddesses in Disguise and Divine Assemblages; IIb. Aphrodite’s Seductive Assemblage in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite; IIc. Pandora as dolos; II. Killer Style and Tragic Poikilia: Clytemnestra and Medea; III. Conclusions; Conclusions; Bibliography.