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Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation - Interpreters and Interpretation (Paperback)
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Philostratus: Interpreters and Interpretation - Interpreters and Interpretation (Paperback)
Series: Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
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Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and
inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man
summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly
individual re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped.
This Roman-era engagement with the already classical past set
important precedents for later understandings of classical art,
literature and culture. This volume examines the ways in which the
labyrinthine Corpus Philostrateum represents and interrogates the
nature of interpretation and the interpreting subject. 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.
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