Image and myth: a history of pictorial narration in Greek art

The pictorial deluge and the study of visual culture

Images and texts compared: a diagnosis of contrasts. Revisiting Lessing's Laocoon

Taking Lessing beyond Lessing

Images of the world: the eighth century. The shield of Achilles: description and narration

Fighting lions

Seafarer's farewell

Siamese twins

Aristocratic life and aristocratic death

Warriors to sea

The advent of pictorial narratives in the seventh century. The horse on wheels

Polyphemos, the defenseless giant

Epic or folktale?

Playing with writing in the eighth, seventh, and sixth enturies. Painters learn to write

Name inscriptions confirming narrative content

Name inscriptions generating narrative content

Everyman's armor: Achilles' armor

Kleitias and the Muses

Directing the gaze in the sixth and fifth centuries. Polyphemos again: the synchronization of narrative images

Hektor's corpse: the surprise at dinner

The hero and the sorceress: moments of suspense

The murder of Priam: unparalleled barbarity

The fall of Troy: combining multiple scenes

Victor and vanquished: the limits of narration and the possibilities of description

Images in the pull of text: from the fifth to the fourth century. Achilles' wrath and Achilles' lyre

From oraliture to literature: the emergence of a culture of reading

Hastening Furies: sleeping Furies

Pictures for readers: the birth of the illustration in the second century. Splendor and misery of an Odyssey picture cycle

The triumph of texts and the fidelity of images

Looking back: pitfalls and nodes.