As I had previously announced in the WIP talk, my paper will discuss some theoretical and methodological aspects concerning my research, which consists of a historical re-construction of the craftsmanship metaphor’s successive transformations in the context of early Greek cosmologies. The book I am currently completing at the CHS is… Read more
The archaeology of ancient borderlands has in the past been a study of the dynamics of communities which exist at the perceived edges of cultural and/or political entities—for example the limes of the Roman provinces, the borders of ancient city-states, or the edges of the ‘Hellenized’ world. This model depends… Read more
In a previous essay (Debiasi 2003) I perused an epic fragment, preserved in POxy LIII 3698, containing hexameters of Argonautic subject, which I argued to be early, by providing some pieces of evidence for an attribution to the Corinthiaca of Eumelus of Corinth. POxy LIII 3698 presents both an external… Read more
The book I came to CHS to complete, “Graphic Art: Alphabetic Images in Ancient Greece,” examines mixed-media contexts in which the materiality of the Greek alphabet is significant. This study underscores how Greek poets and craftsmen alike sustained an intermedial dialogue from the 8th century BCE on, and elaborates the… Read more
‘The Gaze’ has been applied surprisingly little to the history of Greek art. The term has wider art historical applications and has found its way into the corpus of writings about the ancient Romans and their visual culture. Gaze is related to ‘viewing’ and ‘spectatorship’ and implies an ‘audience’ concerned… Read more
