The Representation of Otherness in the 'Imagines' of Philostratus

我的项目将探讨“他者”在Philostratus的“想象”，ecphrasticGreek文本（第二-第三世纪CE），提供了在虚构的那不勒斯画廊展出的古代绘画的描述表示。该项目将为当前学术界关于第二智者论中文化身份的争论提供一个新的视角。身份建构中他者性的重要性是古典主义者的一个相关研究领域（Hall，1989; Gruen，2011），学者们最近开始关注帝国时期的多样性（例如Pandey，2021）。我的项目将加入这样的辩论，特别是与Goldhill，2001和Whitmarsh，2011的研究进行对话，这些研究强调了文学历史主义和文学批评之间的相互联系，以理解希腊身份。我将把这些调查推进到一个未被探索的背景下，Philostratus的“想象”，不仅要解决外国人的代表性，而且要解决那些在更广泛的意义上被描绘为“不同”的人物，无论是关于身体特征还是行为。我将特别关注这些人物的艺术表现，因为“想象”是一个独特的案例研究，探索身份形成如何不仅在文本中，而且在视觉动态中起作用

My project will explore representations of 'otherness' in the 'Imagines' of Philostratus, an ecphrasticGreek text (II-III century CE) that provides descriptions of ancient paintings displayed in a fictionalNeapolitan gallery. The project will offer a new perspective among current scholarly debates on culturalidentity in the Second Sophistic.The importance of otherness in the construction of identity is a relevant field of study for classicists (Hall,1989; Gruen, 2011) and scholars have recently started to concentrate on diversity during the Imperialperiod (e.g. Pandey, 2021). My project will join such debates and enter into dialogue especially with thestudies of Goldhill, 2001 and Whitmarsh, 2011, that highlight the interconnections between literaryhistoricism and literary criticism for understanding Greek identity. I will push these investigations forwardinto an unexplored context, Philostratus' 'Imagines', to address not only the representation of foreigners,but also those of characters who are portrayed as 'different' in a broader sense, whether with regard tophysical features or behaviour. I will pay special attention also to these characters' artisticrepresentations, as the 'Imagines' is a unique case-study for exploring how identity formation works notonly in textual, but also in visual dynamics