Εικων λαλουσα. Testo, immagine e memoria intervisuale nell’epigramma greco arcaico

Archaic epigrams represent the first step towards a definition of the relationship between text and image that will become an important part of the theoretical and poetical reflection in the Hellenistic age. Such a relationship can be analyzed through the categories of intermediality and intervisuality: this paper, in fact, aims at investigating the cooperation between poets and sculptors in order to manufacture innovative monuments, where epigrams and statues were part of the same common project (intermediality). It will also take into account the visual suggestions embedded into some epigrams, which required the audience’s visual memory and knowledge of some famous works of art (intervisuality). The result is a complex web of intertextual and intervisual mutual references between monuments and texts, which will open the path to the lucky season of ecphrastic poetry.