Related Papers
"Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1)" [with Michael Squire] in The Archaeology of Greece and Rome. Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass. John Bintliff and N. Keith Rutter. Edinburgh, 2016, 57-99
Jas Elsner
In: L. Lavan, E. Swift and T. Putzeys (eds.), Objects in Context, Objects in use. Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology 5): 313-361.
The archaeology of late antique dining habits in the eastern Mediterranean: A preliminary study of the evidence
2007 •
Joanita Vroom
Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
‘Latin Literature and Material Culture’ by Michael Squire and Jaś Elsner, in R. Gibson and C. Whitton (eds), Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature, Cambridge (CUP), 2023, 613-699
2023 •
Jas Elsner
The decision to include a chapter on 'material culture' in a Critical Guide to Latin Literature bears witness to a fundamental truth: without 'material culture' there would be no 'Latin literature' to speak of. 1 The study of Latin is predicated on a series of physical survivals. Sometimes, albeit comparatively rarely, Latin texts are transmitted on scraps of ancient papyrus rolls or early parchment codices. 2 More often, they are preserved through Carolingian, later mediaeval and Renaissance manuscriptsthat is, by scribes who copy a text from one material context to another, thereby providing a principal source for later printed editions. 3 At other times, Latin texts come to us via epigraphic means 4whether inscribed as grand monumental declarations in stone, marble or metal (consider Augustus' Res gestae, which survives only epigraphically), 5 or else as wholly
. Late Antique Tomb in Durostorum-Silistra and its Master. – Pontica, 40, 2007, p. 447-468
Georgi Atanasov
Rhetoric and art in third-century AD Rome, in: J. Elsner – M. Meyer (eds), Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture (CUP, 2014), 235-255.
Barbara E Borg
“Homer”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Suppl. I - Vol. 5 : The Reception of Classical Literature (English edition, 2012; original : Die Rezeption der antiken Literatur. Hg. von C. Walde, Der Neue Pauly Suppl. Bd 7. Stuttgart : J. B. Metzler, 2010, 323–372).
Andreas Bagordo
The Homeric epics, the two earliest surviving literary works of Western culture, document a tradition that is oral both in composition and transmission. At a very early date, they were attributed to an authorial figure who is really only a symbol standing for a literature of an entire culture. It matters little to us whether a particular ‘singer’ (aoidós) was called H. Even if a ‘H.’ did exist, we can ascribe to him at most part of the literary activity involved in the creation of the Iliad and Odyssey – perhaps the redactional part. Any search for the intervention of individual personalities, of ‘fingerprints’ in the transmitted text will be in vain. Rather, what is reflected in the text is the entire Greek culture of the Archaic period. That culture found both epics an inexhaustible source for practically all aspects of life. In many respects, writing a comprehensive reception history of H. means writing a literary and cultural history of Greece.
Bernabò, Nascita di una disciplina, Rivista di storia della miniatura, 2017
massimo bernabò
The article deals with the origin of the methodological divergences between the approach to book illumination which prevails in particular in German, American, and French studies and, in contrast, the Italian approach. On one side, the German archaeologists and art historians Otto Jahn, Carl Robert, and, later, Adolf Goldschmidt prepared the grounds for studying miniatures as text illustrations, by investigating the Tabulae Iliacae and Odysseace, the Homeric bowls and the Medieval manuscripts of Terence and other classical authors. Their methodology was adopted in the University of Princeton by Charles R. Morey and Albert M. Friend and was codified by the German art historian Kurt Weitzmann, when he moved to USA and published Illustrations in Roll and Codex in 1947. On the other side, Italian studies in book illumination were dominated by a formalistic approach, which was rooted in Croce’s aesthetics. After the end of the Second World War, Italian art historian Mario Salmi promoted an exclusively stylistic approach to the miniatures, when he organized the Mostra Storica Nazionale della Miniatura (1953-1954), published the Storia della miniatura italiana (1955), and edited the facsimile volume of the Syriac Rabbula Gospels in the Laurentian Library, Florence (1959). A number of Italian art historians (Pietro Toesca, Carlo Bertelli) strongly disagreed with Salmi.
(with J. Elsner), "Introduction: Notes towards a Poetics of Late Antique Literature", in J. Elsner and J. Hernández Lobato (eds.), The Poetics of Late Latin Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, 1-22.
Jesús HERNÁNDEZ LOBATO, Jas Elsner
The introduction to this volume addresses three main issues. First, it provides a critical a reassessment of the discipline of late antique studies, going back to its very foundations and revealing its historical, cultural and political biases. Secondly, it presents and discusses the aesthetic/poetic paradigm of late antique literature and art proposed by the editors, thus setting forth the conceptual frame underlying the whole volume. To this end, notions like metaliterary twist, hybridization, poetics of the uncommon, culture of spolia, appropriationism, era of interpretation, cumulative aesthetics, poetics of the fragment/detail, etc. are briefly explained and discussed with the aid a number of representative examples. Last but not least, it explores the intriguing topicality of late antique culture in its problematic relationship to postmodern world. As usual in these pieces, the introduction also presents and justifies the volume’s aim and structure, as well as the main topics discussed by the different contributors.
A Short History of Classical Literature
Mary DeForest
This is the appendix of my book, Jane Austen: Closet Classicist, and covers ancient literature from Homer to the New Testament.
2018-Transformations of Achilles on Late Roman Mosaics (Wandering Myths)
Katherine Dunbabin
