{"product_id":"philostratus-interpreters-and-interpretation-9781138219458","title":"Philostratus Interpreters and Interpretation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilostratus 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 \u003ci\u003eCorpus Philostrateum \u003c\/i\u003erepresents 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, dep\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePhilostratus: Interpreters and Interpetation\u003c\/em\u003e is a stimulating, focused and coherent first book and first contribution to a new series. It should, as the author hopes with a traditional envoi in his last paragraph, happily encourage further research in an important area of understanding the Greek culture of the Roman Empire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Simon Goldhill, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/em\u003e, Byrn Mawr Classical Review 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 2 \u003ci\u003eMimēsis \u003c\/i\u003eand the Active Interpreter in the \u003ci\u003eVA \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeroicus\u003c\/i\u003e 3 Limitations on Infallibility: Containing the Interpretive Voices in the \u003ci\u003eVA \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeroicus\u003c\/i\u003e 4 The Transcendent Interpreter in the \u003ci\u003eVA \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeroicus \u003c\/i\u003e5 The \u003ci\u003eImagines\u003c\/i\u003e: The Deeds and Appearances of Heroes 6 The \u003ci\u003eImagines\u003c\/i\u003e: Reflexive Landscapes 7 The Sophist on Sophists: \u003ci\u003eVitae Sophistarum \u003c\/i\u003e8 The Desirous Interpreter: Philostratus’ \u003ci\u003eLetters \u003c\/i\u003e9 Reading Nature and Culture: \u003ci\u003eGymnasticus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDialexis \u003c\/i\u003e10 Conclusion: \u003ci\u003eMimēsis \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePaideia \u003c\/i\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863121494359,"sku":"9781138219458","price":142.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138219458.jpg?v=1759919697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philostratus-interpreters-and-interpretation-9781138219458","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}