Ruth Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 5149858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Savoirs, Textes, Langage |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Siege of Syene
This chapter analyses the account of the siege of Syene as an ekphrasis of the manner ( tropos ) in which something is made. It is a crucial passage in the novel, providing the context for Charicleia’s reunion with her father and introducing Hydaspes to the reader who is well aware how much will depend on his character and choices. His actions at Syene can be read, as in panegyric, as signs of his inner qualities, but a more focused reading bring…
Fiction, Mimesis and the Performance of the Past in the Second Sophistic
As if you were there
Quintilian’s account of his response to Cicero makes clear that the listener has a vital role to play in the reception of enargeia, calling on their own experiences and associations in order to create the image. The impact of enargeia within a narration may thus be simultaneously emotional and cognitive, leading to a fresh understanding of the people and events in question. A significant example comes from Lysias, the ultimate master of enargeia …
Dossier : Place aux objets !
Dossier : Et si, par-delà la dichotomie classique sujet-objet, les artefacts étaient appréhendés comme des agents voire des événements, et considérés dans leur rapport au temps et à l’espace ? Ce dossier propose l’étude des phénomènes, dispositifs et contextes par lesquels les objets adviennent en Grèce ancienne. Varia : Balles de fronde, noms barbares : la puissance des mots. Imaginaires du passé : la guerre lélantine, la figure de Solon. Le rôl…
Attitudes Towards Tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
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Odysseus’ Bed
Although the central quality of Odysseus’ rooted bed is clear, much about its nature as an object is left obscure in the telling. This article analyses Odysseus’ account of the making of his bed (Odyssey, 23.183-204) as an example of a detailed narrative of making (ekphrasis tropou) rather than as a description of an object. It argues that the passage derives its meaning from its presentation as a first-person narration and from the actions relat…
Les arts de la mémoire et les images mentales
Dans ses Questions romaines, Plutarque convie son lecteur à une promenade à travers Rome, chaque station étant à la fois l’occasion d’observer des éléments d’architecture et d’aborder un thème en lien avec la vie, la culture, la politique ou la religion. C’est du moins à partir de cette lecture « topographique » élaborée par John Scheid que s’est noué un dialogue entre l’historien et son collègue, le biologiste Alain Berthoz, dialogue étendu à un…
Reperformance and Embodied Knowledge in Roman Pantomime
International audience
Praise and persuasion
Of the three rhetorical genres, epideictic - or panegyric - oratory is, on the surface, the least concerned with the art of persuasion. Consequently, epideictic has tended to be seen as closer to literature than to the manly pursuits of deliberative or judicial oratory. What the author particularly interested in, is the question of audience response, the psychological effect of a formal speech of praise on its listeners, and in persuasion as the …
Schools and Paideia
Education (paideia) was central to the development of what is now called the Second Sophistic, but surprisingly little attention was paid to the subject in the contemporary texts. This omission may have been deliberate, a way of implying that the status of pepaideumenos or educated man was acquired through sociability rather than by tuition. This chapter outlines what we know about the teaching of grammar and rhetoric in the schools of the imperi…
Rhetoric and Fiction
This chapter examines various types of interconnection between rhetoric and fiction in the Roman Imperial period. On the simplest level, the results of the intense training in rhetorical technique are visible in Greek and Latin novels in courtroom scenes and speeches but also in the broader techniques of storytelling, particularly character portrayal (ethopoēia) and vivid narration (enargeia). These have the effect of drawing readers into the wor…
Nonnos of Panopolis
Nonnos was a Greek poet from Panopolis in Egypt (modern Akhmim), author of the Dionysiaca, an epic poem relating the life and triumph of Dionysos, and of a verse Paraphrase of the Gospel of John, both written in dactylic hexameters using epic dialect.
Pantomime, Roman
Pantomime was one of the most popular, and controversial, theatrical entertainments in the Roman Empire.
Education, Byzantine
As in earlier centuries, formal schooling was primarily in reading, writing, grammar, rhetoric, and, at a higher level, law and philosophy.
Rhetoric, Byzantine
Rhetoric continued to play an important part in both education and society into the sixth century and beyond.
Texte et image dans l’Antiquité
Le rapport entre texte et image a toujours joué un rôle primordial dans l’étude de l’art de l’Antiquité. En effet, la perte de la quasi-totalité de la peinture antique (surtout avant les découvertes à Pompéi et Herculaneum au xviiie siècle) a obligé les savants, artistes et commanditaires de la Renaissance à avoir recours aux textes, comme les Images de Philostrate ou la Calomnie d’Apelle de Lucien, pour reconstruire à la fois une conception de l…
Inside the Mask
This chapter explores the art form of pantomime through the perspective of the performer and attempts to get ‘behind the mask’ and discover the dancers themselves as living, breathing, embodied beings with their own perspective. The chapter reconstructs the experience of the pantomime dancer through examining the ancient evidence for the dance and the training undertaken by its performers; particular attention is given to the demands that this pe…
Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy
This chapter contains section titled: Christians and the Classics The Theatre in Basil's Treatise The Theatre, Mimesis and Morality
Boissard, Jean-Jacques
Ekphrasis
The Progymnasmata as Practice
International audience
Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric
International audience
To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’
Liz James, Ruth Webb; ‘To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’: Ekphrasis and Art in Byzantium, Art History, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1 March 199
To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’
Liz James, Ruth Webb; ‘To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’: Ekphrasis and Art in Byzantium, Art History, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1 March 199
Texte et image dans l’Antiquité
Le rapport entre texte et image a toujours joué un rôle primordial dans l’étude de l’art de l’Antiquité. En effet, la perte de la quasi-totalité de la peinture antique (surtout avant les découvertes à Pompéi et Herculaneum au xviiie siècle) a obligé les savants, artistes et commanditaires de la Renaissance à avoir recours aux textes, comme les Images de Philostrate ou la Calomnie d’Apelle de Lucien, pour reconstruire à la fois une conception de l…
To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’
Liz James, Ruth Webb; ‘To Understand Ultimate Things and Enter Secret Places’: Ekphrasis and Art in Byzantium, Art History, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1 March 199
Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric
International audience
The Progymnasmata as Practice
International audience
Boissard, Jean-Jacques
Ekphrasis
Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy
This chapter contains section titled: Christians and the Classics The Theatre in Basil's Treatise The Theatre, Mimesis and Morality
Inside the Mask
This chapter explores the art form of pantomime through the perspective of the performer and attempts to get ‘behind the mask’ and discover the dancers themselves as living, breathing, embodied beings with their own perspective. The chapter reconstructs the experience of the pantomime dancer through examining the ancient evidence for the dance and the training undertaken by its performers; particular attention is given to the demands that this pe…
Nonnos of Panopolis
Nonnos was a Greek poet from Panopolis in Egypt (modern Akhmim), author of the Dionysiaca, an epic poem relating the life and triumph of Dionysos, and of a verse Paraphrase of the Gospel of John, both written in dactylic hexameters using epic dialect.
Pantomime, Roman
Pantomime was one of the most popular, and controversial, theatrical entertainments in the Roman Empire.
Education, Byzantine
As in earlier centuries, formal schooling was primarily in reading, writing, grammar, rhetoric, and, at a higher level, law and philosophy.
Rhetoric, Byzantine
Rhetoric continued to play an important part in both education and society into the sixth century and beyond.
Texte et image dans l’Antiquité
Le rapport entre texte et image a toujours joué un rôle primordial dans l’étude de l’art de l’Antiquité. En effet, la perte de la quasi-totalité de la peinture antique (surtout avant les découvertes à Pompéi et Herculaneum au xviiie siècle) a obligé les savants, artistes et commanditaires de la Renaissance à avoir recours aux textes, comme les Images de Philostrate ou la Calomnie d’Apelle de Lucien, pour reconstruire à la fois une conception de l…
Rhetoric and Fiction
This chapter examines various types of interconnection between rhetoric and fiction in the Roman Imperial period. On the simplest level, the results of the intense training in rhetorical technique are visible in Greek and Latin novels in courtroom scenes and speeches but also in the broader techniques of storytelling, particularly character portrayal (ethopoēia) and vivid narration (enargeia). These have the effect of drawing readers into the wor…
Reperformance and Embodied Knowledge in Roman Pantomime
International audience
Praise and persuasion
Of the three rhetorical genres, epideictic - or panegyric - oratory is, on the surface, the least concerned with the art of persuasion. Consequently, epideictic has tended to be seen as closer to literature than to the manly pursuits of deliberative or judicial oratory. What the author particularly interested in, is the question of audience response, the psychological effect of a formal speech of praise on its listeners, and in persuasion as the …
Schools and Paideia
Education (paideia) was central to the development of what is now called the Second Sophistic, but surprisingly little attention was paid to the subject in the contemporary texts. This omission may have been deliberate, a way of implying that the status of pepaideumenos or educated man was acquired through sociability rather than by tuition. This chapter outlines what we know about the teaching of grammar and rhetoric in the schools of the imperi…
Dossier : Place aux objets !
Dossier : Et si, par-delà la dichotomie classique sujet-objet, les artefacts étaient appréhendés comme des agents voire des événements, et considérés dans leur rapport au temps et à l’espace ? Ce dossier propose l’étude des phénomènes, dispositifs et contextes par lesquels les objets adviennent en Grèce ancienne. Varia : Balles de fronde, noms barbares : la puissance des mots. Imaginaires du passé : la guerre lélantine, la figure de Solon. Le rôl…
Attitudes Towards Tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Odysseus’ Bed
Although the central quality of Odysseus’ rooted bed is clear, much about its nature as an object is left obscure in the telling. This article analyses Odysseus’ account of the making of his bed (Odyssey, 23.183-204) as an example of a detailed narrative of making (ekphrasis tropou) rather than as a description of an object. It argues that the passage derives its meaning from its presentation as a first-person narration and from the actions relat…
Les arts de la mémoire et les images mentales
Dans ses Questions romaines, Plutarque convie son lecteur à une promenade à travers Rome, chaque station étant à la fois l’occasion d’observer des éléments d’architecture et d’aborder un thème en lien avec la vie, la culture, la politique ou la religion. C’est du moins à partir de cette lecture « topographique » élaborée par John Scheid que s’est noué un dialogue entre l’historien et son collègue, le biologiste Alain Berthoz, dialogue étendu à un…
As if you were there
Quintilian’s account of his response to Cicero makes clear that the listener has a vital role to play in the reception of enargeia, calling on their own experiences and associations in order to create the image. The impact of enargeia within a narration may thus be simultaneously emotional and cognitive, leading to a fresh understanding of the people and events in question. A significant example comes from Lysias, the ultimate master of enargeia …
Fiction, Mimesis and the Performance of the Past in the Second Sophistic
The Siege of Syene
This chapter analyses the account of the siege of Syene as an ekphrasis of the manner ( tropos ) in which something is made. It is a crucial passage in the novel, providing the context for Charicleia’s reunion with her father and introducing Hydaspes to the reader who is well aware how much will depend on his character and choices. His actions at Syene can be read, as in panegyric, as signs of his inner qualities, but a more focused reading bring…
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