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Nectar and Illusion Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies William M. Murray Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy Simon Goldhill Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature Henry Maguire Nectar and Illusion NATURE IN BYZANTINE ART AND LITERATURE Henry Maguire Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2012 by Oxford University Press Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Maguire, Henry, 1943– Nectar and illusion : nature in Byzantine art and literature / Henry Maguire. p. cm. — (Onassis series in Hellenic culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-976660-4 1. Nature in art. 2. Nature in literature. 3. Arts, Byzantine—Themes, motives. 4. Byzantine literature—Themes, motives. 5. Nature—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title. II. Title: Nature in Byzantine art and literature. NX650.N38M34 2012 700′.4609495—dc23 2011043945 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Anna and Pierre This page intentionally left blank Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-fi recoal chestnut-falls; fi nches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fi ckle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. —Gerard Manley Hopkins This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Preface xix Introduction 3 1. Nature and Idolatry 11 2. Nature and Rhetoric 48 3. Nature and Metaphor 78 4. Nature and Abstraction 1 06 5. Nature and Architecture 135 Conclusion 166 Bibliography 1 75 Index 187
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