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Philostratus the Elder, Imagines. Philostratus the Younger, Imagines. Callistratus, Descriptions

by Philostratus the Elder, Philostratus the Younger, Callistratus

Descriptions of paintings and statues, real or imagined -- the ancient art of making a picture out of words.

The Edition

Original language
Greek
Translated by
Arthur Fairbanks

Publication

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Series
Loeb Classical Library (LCL)
Series volume
256
Date published
1931-01-01
Print status
In print

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardcover
Dust jacket
Yes
Total pages
480 pages
ISBN-13
9780674992825

Reference

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Contents

  • list of descriptions
  • list of illustrations
  • bibliography
  • Philostratus the Elder
    • introduction
    • Imagines
      • book i
        • Introduction
        • 1. Scamander
        • 2. Comus
        • 3. Fables
        • 4. Menoeceus
        • 5. Dwarfs
        • 6. Cupids
        • 7. Memnon
        • 8. Amymone
        • 9. A Marsh
        • 10. Amphion
        • 11. Phaëthon
        • 12. Bosphoros
        • 13. Bosphoros
        • 14. Semele
        • 15. Ariadne
        • 16. Pasiphaë
        • 17. Hippodameia
        • 18. Bacchantes
        • 19. The Tyrrhenian Pirates
        • 20. Satyrs
        • 21. Olympus
        • 22. Midas
        • 23. Narcissus
        • 24. Hyacinthus
        • 25. Andrians
        • 26. Birth of Hermes
        • 27. Amphiaraüs
        • 28. Hunters
        • 29. Perseus
        • 30. Pelops
        • 31. Xenia
      • book ii
        • 1. Singers
        • 2. The Education of Achilles
        • 3. Female Centaurs
        • 4. Hippolytus
        • 5. Rhodogoune
        • 6. Arrichion
        • 7. Antilochus
        • 8. Meles
        • 9. Pantheia
        • 10. Cassandra
        • 11. Pan
        • 12. Pindar
        • 13. The Gyraean Rocks
        • 14. Thessaly
        • 15. Glaucus Pontius
        • 16. Palaemon
        • 17. Islands
        • 18. Cyclops
        • 19. Phorbas
        • 20. Atlas
        • 21. Antaeus
        • 22. Heracles among the Pygmies
        • 23. The Madness of Heracles
        • 24. Theiodamas
        • 25. The Burial of Abderus
        • 26. Xenia
        • 27. The Birth of Athena
        • 28. Looms
        • 29. Antigone
        • 30. Evadne
        • 31. Themistocles
        • 32. Palaestra
        • 33. Dodona
        • 34. Horae
  • Philostratus the Younger
    • Introduction
    • imagines
      • Prooemium
      • 1. Achilles on Scyros
      • Pyrrhus on Scyros
      • 2. Marsyas
      • 3. Hunters
      • 4. Heracles or Acheloüs
      • 5. Heracles in Swaddling-clothes
      • 6. Orpheus
      • 7. Medea among the Colchians
      • 8. Boys at Play
      • 9. Pelops
      • 10. Pyrrhus or the Mysians
      • 11. The Argo or Aeëtes
      • 12. Hesione
      • 13. Sophocles
      • 14. Hyacinthus
      • 15. Meleager
      • 16. Nessus
      • 17. Philoctetes
  • Callistratus
    • introduction
    • descriptions
      • 1. On a Satyr
      • 2. On the Statue of Bacchante
      • 3. On the Statue of Eros
      • 4. On the Statue of an Indian
      • 5. On the Statue of Narcissus
      • 6. On the Statue of Opportunity at Sicyon
      • 7. On the Statue of Orpheus
      • 8. On the Statue of Dionysus
      • 9. On the Statue of Memnon
      • 10. On the Statue of Paean
      • 11. On the Statue of a Youth
      • 12. On the Statue of a Centaur
      • 13. On the Statue of Medea
      • 14. On the Figure of Athamas
  • index