The Representation of Otherness in the 'Imagines' of Philostratus

我的项目将探索在Philostratus的“想象力”中对“他者”的表现，Philostratus是一部通俗的希腊文本(公元II-III世纪)，提供了在那不勒斯虚构的画廊中展示的古代绘画的描述。该项目将为当前关于第二智者文化认同的学术辩论提供一个新的视角。身份建构中的差异性的重要性是古典学家的相关研究领域(霍尔，；格伦，2011年)，学者们最近开始专注于帝国时期的多样性(如潘迪，2021年)。我的项目将加入这样的辩论，并进入对话，特别是与戈德希尔(2001)和惠特马什(2011)的研究，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。我将把这些研究推进到一个未被探索的语境--Philostratus‘’Imagines‘’，不仅要解决外国人的表征，而且还要解决那些被描绘成更广泛意义上的‘不同’的人物的表征，无论是关于物理特征还是行为。我还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，旨在探索身份形成不仅在文本中是如何运作的，而且在视觉动态中也是如此

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