title: Heliodorus's Aethiopica and the Odyssean Mnesterophonia: an intermedial reading
creator: Tagliabue, Aldo
subject: ddc-470
subject: 470 Italic Latin
subject: ddc-480
subject: 480 Hellenic languages Classical Greek
subject: ddc-870
subject: 870 Italic literatures Latin
subject: ddc-880
subject: 880 Hellenic literatures Classical Greek
description: The opening scene of Heliodorus’s Aethiopica has a special ekphrastic  quality, and scholars have noted that its tragic banquet recalls the Mnesterophonia  in Homer’s Odyssey. I argue that Heliodorus’s banquet is not only a  literary remaking of the Odyssean episode but also an account that stresses its  pictorial quality. This new reading is suggested by the vividness of the description  and by the echoes of drinking vessels and tables, the two distinctive features  of the iconography of the Mnesterophonia, which was likely to be known  in Heliodorus’s time (third-fourth centuries c.e.).
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
date: 2015-10-01
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00023519
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-235190
identifier:   Tagliabue, Aldo  (2015) Heliodorus's Aethiopica and the Odyssean Mnesterophonia: an intermedial reading.  TAPA, 145 (2).  pp. 445-468.      
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language: eng