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Looking Like a Roman, Looking Like a Greek

其他書名	Viewing as Cultural Performance in the Late Republic and Early Empire
出版	Stanford University, 2015
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=D01ZAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation explores the cultural conundrum captured in Horace's much-quoted aphorism: Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit; Greek art in Rome potentially signals both captive Greece and captivated Rome. Whether plundered or purchased, a Greek masterpiece on display might proclaim Rome's geopolitical and economic ascendancy, or the Romans' own sophistication, but it might also act as compelling evidence of Greece's artistic superiority. I focus on two bodies of evidence for how viewers responded to this semantic instability: Greek and Latin ekphrastic poems written in response to Greek artworks on display in Rome (Chapters 1 and 2); and wallpaintings inscribed with Greek and Latin texts from Rome, Assisi, Pompeii, and Ostia (Chapters 3 and 4). I argue that these ekphrastic texts and inscribed images showcase strategic answers to the question of how to look at Greek art through the eyes of a captor rather than a captive. Ranging from elite texts and grand residences, to the taverns frequented by non-elites, my case studies trace the cultural coding of visualities across the strata of Roman society. The project sheds light on the entanglement of art, empire, and identity in the Graeco-Roman world, demonstrating that viewing was one of the cultural practices through which Greekness and Romanness came to be defined.