Regard et représentation du paysage dans l’épopée grecque d’époque impériale : le cas des mirabilia
The landscape as we usually understand it is the ideal place to observe the work of the eyesight and its artistic representation. The Greek epic of imperial times almost systematically mentions the importance of the eyesight and the wonder felt by the viewer or traveller at the sight of a peculiar l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2013-04-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/211 |
| Summary: | The landscape as we usually understand it is the ideal place to observe the work of the eyesight and its artistic representation. The Greek epic of imperial times almost systematically mentions the importance of the eyesight and the wonder felt by the viewer or traveller at the sight of a peculiar landscape seen as a natural wonder. Revealing here is the case of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica, an epic poet of the Second Sophistic: the mention of the geographic wonders of Caria and Lycia are as many opportunities for the eyesight to work out a transformation of nature into landscape. They are above all the powerful moments of a Homeric rewriting with a polemical intent: the peculiar traits of oriental geography are also the strong identitarian traits of these Greek colonies under Roman sway. We shall therefore show that, although one cannot speak of a subjective experience felt in front of nature, the case of the mirabilia in the Posthomerica yet present themselves as the work of the subjectivizing outlook of a culture in the grip of a crisis as it polemically constructs its identity in and through its perception of nature, then enhanced into landscape. Landscape does indeed become, in that late period, the place of the artistic exercise of a cultivated gaze, at the origin of a process of artialization (A. Roger). |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |