A HOMERIC CATALOGUE OF SHAPES

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Filippo CarlUhink is Professor of Ancient History at Potsdam University Germany. His main research areas are the social and economical history of Late Antiquity the history of the Roman Republic the cultural history of ancient Rome with a particular attention for space concepts and the construction of space and the reception of antiquity in modern media. He is coeditor of Bloomsbury Academics series IMAGINES Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts and editor of Caesar Attila & Co. Comics und die Antike (2014) and with Irene Berti Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts (Bloomsbury Academic 2015).Martin Lindner is Lecturer in Ancient History and Curator of the Tom Stern Collection film archive at the University of Gttingen Germany. He specializes in imperial Roman history cultural history and classical reception in modern popular culture. His PhD thesis published in 2007 (Rom und seine Kaiser im Historienfilm Frankfurt am Main) was devoted to the representation of Roman emperors in cinema. He is also the (co)editor of Drehbuch Geschichte (2005) Nationalismus und Antikenrezeption (2009) Tempelprostitution im Altertum (2009) Antikenrezeption 2013 n. Chr. (2013) and of the Rezeption der Antike series (Verlag Antike Heidelberg). His current projects focus on ancient cannibalism on Augustus in historical novels and on parodies of cinematic antiquity.Charlayn von Solms is a sculptor in Cape Town South Africa. She has held three solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows. She has lectured at the Michaelis School of Fine Art of the University of Cape Town South Africa the Department of Fine Art of the University of the Free State South Africa and the Department of Informatics and Design Cape Peninsula University of Technology South Africa.Interdisciplinary study through art and literatureHomers works are the most popular Classical textsSheds new light on familiar textsUnique blend of practitioner experience and scholarly approachCharlayn von Solms is a sculptor in Cape Town South Africa. She has lectured at the Michaelis School of Fine Art of the University of Cape Town South Africa the Department of Fine Art of the University of the Free State South Africa and the Department of Informatics and Design Cape Peninsula University of Technology South Africa.In the popular imagination Homer as author of the Iliad and the Odyssey epitomises poetic genius. So when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not the unique creation of an individual author but instead reflected a traditional compositional system developed by generations of singerpoets swathes of assumptions about the poems and their author were swept aside and called into question. Much had to be reevaluated through a new lens. The creative process described by scholars for the Homeric epics shares many key attributes with the modern visual artforms of collage

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