Continuous Narration through Scenic Depictions. The Apollonius pictus
András Németh
A unique narrative pictorial cycle survives in the Apollonius pictus, an Ottonian copy of a Late Antique illustrated romance, Historia Apollonii. The fragment depicts continuous narration from perspective romance’s storyteller who was careful to maintain linearity time and space when retelling adventurous story King his family. contaminated text this fragmentary manuscript underwent at least two steps transition which transformed depictions extent is difficult asses. Instead individual depictions, however, I focus on their cyclic cohesion likely fossilized essence model. As experimental method, analyzed pictus as scenes by dramatic scene division. demonstrate that carefully follows division action tends depict dialogues separately. Time illustrator conflates more sce...
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