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Gli Stylopinakia e il tempio della regina Apollonide di Cizico. Una revisione letteraria e archeologica del terzo libro dell’ Anthologia Palatina

2017; Loescher; Volume: 145; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.rfic.5.123424

2785-0773

Chiara Ballestrazzi,

Renaissance Literature and Culture

Possibly a Late Antique ekphrastic exercise, the nineteen stylopinakia representing mythological scenes from the temple of the Attalid queen Apollonis of Cyzicus that are transmitted by AP. 3 make any attempt at interpretation difficult, since they lack any literary or archaeological parallel. A review of the evidence and the terminology contained in the lemmata accompanying the epigrams accommodates a reconstruction of the stylopinakia - perhaps located on the column bases, metopes arranged in a frieze, or ephemeral elements - as forming a Π inside the cella, possibly alternating with other kinds of decoration.