The Politics and Poetics of Paul the ...
Type de document :
Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...): Communication dans un congrès avec actes: Conférence invitée
Titre :
The Politics and Poetics of Paul the Silentiary’s Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia
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Titre de la manifestation scientifique :
Ekphrasis and the Visual Imagination in Antiquity
Ville :
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Pays :
Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Date de début de la manifestation scientifique :
2019-05
Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :
Ekphrasis, Hagia Sophia
Résumé en anglais : [en]
My paper focuses on what is said and, more importantly, on what is not said by Paul the Silentiary in his monumental poetic ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia. I will consider the poem as a political act with an implicit argumentative ...
Lire la suite >My paper focuses on what is said and, more importantly, on what is not said by Paul the Silentiary in his monumental poetic ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia. I will consider the poem as a political act with an implicit argumentative strategy that seeks to attribute agency to the Emperor Justinian, to Constantinople and to Hagia Sophia herself, by systematically downplaying or ignoring the contributions of other actors. Given what we know about the regime of Justinian and of the role and nature of panegyric in Late Antiquity, this is not surprising. What I would like to suggest is that this is an intrinsic function of ekphrasis as it was understood in Antiquity and particularly of ekphraseis that describe the manner in which something was done or constructed.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >My paper focuses on what is said and, more importantly, on what is not said by Paul the Silentiary in his monumental poetic ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia. I will consider the poem as a political act with an implicit argumentative strategy that seeks to attribute agency to the Emperor Justinian, to Constantinople and to Hagia Sophia herself, by systematically downplaying or ignoring the contributions of other actors. Given what we know about the regime of Justinian and of the role and nature of panegyric in Late Antiquity, this is not surprising. What I would like to suggest is that this is an intrinsic function of ekphrasis as it was understood in Antiquity and particularly of ekphraseis that describe the manner in which something was done or constructed.Lire moins >
Langue :
Anglais
Comité de lecture :
Non
Audience :
Internationale
Vulgarisation :
Non
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