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
Aristocratic life and aristocratic death
The advent of pictorial narratives in the seventh century. The horse on wheels
Polyphemos, the defenseless giant
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
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.
