The Chthonic Sublime
The Chthonic Sublime
This chapter examines the Underworld in relation to ancient notions of perspective and the sublime. It demonstrates how ancient attempts to conceptualize, depict, and even construct the spaces of the Underworld, particularly in the cramped space of the tomb, were achieved by establishing the limits of the field of vision itself—limits that were constituted reflexively by their capacity to be exceeded or transgressed.
Keywords: Hades, Underworld, Perspective, Sublime, Tomb, Space, Mosaics, Painting, Landscape
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