This article focuses on the opening scene of Heliodorus’ novel, a very elaborate ekphrasis that results in a famously sophisticated interplay between visual and textual data. My aim is to trace their interrelation back to the Odyssey’s Mnesterophonìa, the obvious model of the scene. I also try to show that Heliodorus, while conjuring up the Odyssey, integrates into his narrative the later tradition relevant to the Mnesterophonìa, which had of course a rich reception, both literary and iconographic. All in all, Heliodorus emerges as a master of intertextuality as well as of intervisuality
Intertextuality and Intervisuality in Heliodorus / G. Zanetto. - In: PROMETHEUS. - ISSN 0391-2698. - 44:(2018), pp. 209-222. (Intervento presentato al 5. convegno ICAN V : International Conference on the Ancient Novel : 30 September - 4 October tenutosi a Houston (Texas, USA) nel 2015) [10.14601/prometheus-23550].
Intertextuality and Intervisuality in Heliodorus
G. Zanetto
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2018
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This article focuses on the opening scene of Heliodorus’ novel, a very elaborate ekphrasis that results in a famously sophisticated interplay between visual and textual data. My aim is to trace their interrelation back to the Odyssey’s Mnesterophonìa, the obvious model of the scene. I also try to show that Heliodorus, while conjuring up the Odyssey, integrates into his narrative the later tradition relevant to the Mnesterophonìa, which had of course a rich reception, both literary and iconographic. All in all, Heliodorus emerges as a master of intertextuality as well as of intervisualityFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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