Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation: Interpreters and Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9781138219458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 186 str.

Graeme Miles

Opis

This volume examines the ways in which the labyrinthine Corpus Philostrateum represents and interrogates the nature of interpretation. Taking ‘interpretation’ broadly as the production of meaning from objects that are considered to bear some less than obvious significance, it examines the very different interpreter figures presented: Apollonius of Tyana as interpreter of omens, dreams and art-works; an unnamed Vinetender and the dead Protesilaus as interpreters of heroes; and the sophist who emotively describes a gallery full of paintings, depicting in the process both the techniques of educated viewing and the various errors and illusions into which a viewer can fall.

Spis treści

1 Introduction  2 Mimēsis and the Active Interpreter in the VA and Heroicus  3 Limitations on Infallibility: Containing the Interpretive Voices in the VA and Heroicus  4 The Transcendent Interpreter in the VA and Heroicus  5 The Imagines: The Deeds and Appearances of Heroes  6 The Imagines: Reflexive Landscapes  7 The Sophist on Sophists: Vitae Sophistarum  8 The Desirous Interpreter: Philostratus’ Letters  9 Reading Nature and Culture: Gymnasticus and Dialexis  10 Conclusion: Mimēsis and Paideia Bibliography

O autorze

Graeme Miles is a lecturer in classics at the University of Tasmania. He researches in ancient Greek literature and thought, especially of the Roman era. He has published numerous articles on Philostratus and is currently produ​cing, with Dirk Baltzly and John Finamore, a translation of Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic.