Ebook: Image and myth a history of pictorial narration in Greek art

The pictorial deluge and the study of visual cultures -- Images and texts compared: a diagnosis of contrasts. Revisiting Lessing's Laocoon ; Taking Lessing beyond Lessing -- Images of the world: the eighth century. The shield of Achilleus: description and narration ; Fighting lions ; Seafarer's farewell ; Siamese twins ; 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 enturies. Painters learn to write ; Name inscriptions confirming narrative content ; Name inscriptions generating narrative content ; Everyman's armor "Achilleus" armor ; Kleitias and the muses -- Directing the gaze in the sixth and fifth centuries. Polyphemos again: the synchronization of narrative images ; Hektor's corpse: the surprise at dinner ; The hero and the sorceress: moments of suspense ; The murder of Priam: unparalleled barbarity ; The fall of Troy: Combining multiple scenes ; Victor and vanquished: the limits of narration and the possibilities of description -- Images in the pull of text: from the fifth to the fourth century ; Achilleus' wrath and Achilleus' lyre. From oraliture to literature: the emergence of a culture of reading ; Hastening furies? Sleeping furies -- Pictures for readers. The birth of the illustration in the second century. Splendor and misery of an Odyssey picture cycle ; The triumph of texts and the fidelity of images -- Looking back: pitfalls and nodes.