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AncientGreekEkphrasis:BetweenDescriptionandNarration Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology SeriesEditors IreneJ.F.deJong CarolineH.M.Kroon EditorialBoard RutgerJ.Allan MarkA.J.Heerink volume 26 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ascp Ancient Greek Ekphrasis: Between Description and Narration FiveLinguisticandNarratologicalCaseStudies By NielsKoopman LEIDEN | BOSTON LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Koopman,Niels,author. Title:AncientGreekekphrasis:betweendescriptionandnarration;fivelinguistic andnarratologicalcasestudies/byNielsKoopman. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,2018.|Series:Amsterdamstudiesinclassical philology;volume26|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018023351(print)|LCCN2018027497(ebook)| ISBN9789004375130(E-book)|ISBN9789004373532(hardback:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Ekphrasis.|Greekliterature–Historyandcriticism. 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Contents PrefaceandAcknowledgments ix EditionsandTranslations x 1 Introduction:Ekphrasis,NarrationandDescription 1 1.1 The‘Problem’ofEkphrasis:ToNarrateortoDescribe? 1 1.2 ADefinitionofEkphrasis 2 1.3 Ekphrasis:Descriptionand/orNarration? 5 1.3.1 Preliminaries 5 1.3.2 StateoftheArt 9 1.3.3 ConcludingRemarks 13 1.4 Narration 15 1.4.1 Introduction 15 1.4.2 Narration,NarrativeandNarrativity 15 1.4.3 VerbalandVisualNarrative 23 1.4.4 ConcludingRemarks 30 1.5 Description 31 1.5.1 Introduction 31 1.5.2 DescriptionandDescriptivity 32 1.5.3 ConcludingRemarks 37 1.5.4 VerbalandVisualDescription 38 1.6 Conclusion 39 2 Methodology,TestCasesandCorpus 41 2.1 Introduction 41 2.2 AModelforAnalysis 41 2.2.1 Introduction 41 2.2.2 TheDiscourseModes 43 2.3 TheHarbourofPhorcysandtheCaveoftheNymphs(Od. 13.96–112) 46 2.3.1 Introduction 46 2.3.2 Analysis 48 2.4 AgamemnonArmsforBattle(Il.11.15–46) 53 2.4.1 Introduction 53 2.4.2 Analysis 56 2.4.3 PatroclusArmsforBattle(Il.16.131–144) 64 2.5 Conclusion 65 2.6 Corpus 66 vi contents 3 TheShieldofAchilles(Il.18.478–608) 68 3.1 Introduction 68 3.2 Description,Narration,orBoth?ABriefStateoftheArt 69 3.3 ShieldofAchilles:ItsDescriptivityandNarrativity 73 3.3.1 OverviewofTenses 73 3.3.2 Hephaestus’Actions(468–613) 74 3.3.3 TheImages(483–608) 78 3.4 Conclusion 121 3.5 VisualizingtheShieldofAchilles 123 4 TheShieldofHeracles(Hes.Sc.139–320) 129 4.1 Introduction 129 4.2 Description,Narration,orBoth?ABriefStateoftheArt 130 4.3 TheShieldofHeracles:ItsDescriptivityandNarrativity 132 4.3.1 OverviewofTenses 132 4.3.2 TheImages(144–317)andtheLinesSurroundingtheImages (139–143and318–321) 133 4.4 Conclusion 171 4.5 VisualizingtheShieldofHeracles 172 5 TheGoatherd’sCup(Theoc.Id.1.27–60) 176 5.1 Introduction 176 5.2 Description,Narration,orBoth?ABriefStateoftheArt 177 5.3 TheGoatherd’sCup:ItsDescriptivityandNarrativity 178 5.3.1 TextandTranslation 178 5.3.2 OverviewofTenses 180 5.3.3 Preliminaries 182 5.3.4 TheLinesSurroundingtheImages(25–31and55–60) 183 5.3.5 TheImages(32–54) 189 5.4 Conclusion 204 5.5 VisualizingtheGoatherd’sCup 205 6 Jason’sCloak(A.R.1.721–768) 207 6.1 Introduction 207 6.2 Jason’sCloak:ItsDescriptivityandNarrativity 208 6.2.1 TextandTranslation 208 6.2.2 OverviewofTenses 211 6.2.3 Preliminaries 212 6.2.4 TheLinesSurroundingtheImages(721–729and768–773) 213 6.2.5 TheImages(730–767) 216 contents vii 6.3 Conclusion 232 6.4 VisualizingJason’sCloak 234 7 Europa’sBasket(Mosch.Eur.37–62) 236 7.1 Introduction 236 7.2 Europa’sBasket:ItsDescriptivityandNarrativity 236 7.2.1 TextandTranslation 236 7.2.2 OverviewofTenses 238 7.2.3 Preliminaries 239 7.2.4 TheLinesSurroundingtheImages(37–42and62) 240 7.2.5 TheImages(43–61) 243 7.3 Conclusion 254 7.4 VisualizingEuropa’sBasket 255 8 Conclusion 257 8.1 Ekphrasis:BetweenDescriptionandNarration 257 8.2 EkphrasisandVisualization 262 8.3 TheFindingsofThisStudyandtheNotionofEkphrasis 263 Bibliography 265 IndexofGreekWords 288 GeneralIndex 289 Preface and Acknowledgments Thisbookisarevisedversionofmydoctoraldissertation,whichwasdefended attheUniversityofAmsterdaminNovember2014.Itwaswrittenaspartofthe researchprogramme AncientWarNarrative.ACombinedDiscourse-Linguistic andNarratologicalApproach,fundedbytheNetherlandsOrganizationforSci- entificResearch(NWO).ThisworkwascompletedattheInstituteforCulture andHistory(ICG)attheUniversityofAmsterdam. IamverygratefultomysupervisorsIrenedeJongandRutgerAllanfortheir support during the writing of this book, which owes much to their acuity. I also want to thank the other members of the AncientWarNarrative project, SuzanneAdema,CarolineKroonandDavidStienaersfortheircommentson earlierdraftsof chaptersof thisbook.Ialsoreceivedhelpfulcommentsfrom BaukjevandenBerg,SusanneBorowski,JoHeirman,CharlesHupperts,Jacque- lineKlooster,HenryMason,FrankMüller,LauraRoling,DavidRijser,Paulvan Uum,SaskiaWilligers,membersoftheAmsterdamseHellenistenclubandthe anonymousreviewerfromBrill. Thisbookstudiesekphrasis—theverbalrepresentationofvisualrepresenta- tion—frombothadiscourselinguisticandanarratologicalperspective.Such a combined approach does justice to the extraordinary nature of ekphrasis, whichistextandimage.Adiscourselinguisticanalysisrevealsthelinguistic properties of the text, which are of the utmost importance for the interpre- tationof ekphrasis.Textandimagecanbeinvestigatedfurtherwiththerich toolkit furnished by narratology. By combining both approaches in five case studies,thisbookhopestoopenupnewperspectivesonancientGreekekphra- sis. NielsKoopman Amsterdam,March2018 Editions andTranslations Editions Apollonius Vian,F.1974.ApolloniosdeRhodes:Argonautiques.ChantsI–II.Paris. Hesiod Most,G.W.2007. Hesiod:TheShield,CatalogueofWomen,OtherFrag- ments.Harvard. Homer Erbse,H.1975.ScholiaGraecainHomeriIliadem(ScholiaVetera).Vol.4: ScholiaadLibrosO-Tcontinens.Berlin. Monro,D.B.andT.W.Allen.1919–1920.HomeriIlias.Oxford. VonderMühll,P.1962.HomeriOdyssea.Basel. 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