Index
Index Page references in italics indicate illustrations. abstraction: in mosaics, 168, 170–71; vs. particularity, 58–59; vs. representation, 48 Adam and Eve, 35–36 Adonis, 74, 205n.75 aesthetics: cultural, 48, 198n.23; of discontinuity (see ekphrasis; fragments, aesthetics of); of dissonant echoing, 43–49, 55–57, 61, 63; flowers in, 63, 73–77, 204n.57; jeweled style, 17–18, 43–44, 61, 188n.2 (see also under spectacle); juxtaposition in, 43, 46–47, 48, 53; metamorphosing qualities of, 80; metaphors of color and light, 59, 73, 83, 100, 204n.58 (see also under spectacle); parataxis in, 43, 47, 48, 197n.15; patterning in, 43, 45–46, 73. See also art and literature, ancient agency and icons, 164–66, 226n.12 Agnes, Saint: death of, 173, 228n.52; icons of, 164, 168, 168, 170–78, 186n.25; Prudentius on, 175–76; puns on her name, 55 ambiguous corporeality of saintly bodies, 102–15; Augustine on, 103; carnal rhetoric and transfiguration (apparitions), 112–15, 130, 175–76, 215n.59, 215n.61, 215n.63, 215–16n.67 (see also subtle saintly bodies); as effects of hagiography , 115; and the idolatry problem, 110; materialized discourse and meaning, 109–12, 214n.49; meaning of ambiguous corporeality, 212n.5; and ocular imagination , 108–9; overview of, 102–4; visceral seeing of, 102–8; visceral writing about, 106–8, 213n.27, 213n.29 Ambrose, 12, 98–99 angels, 174–75, 215n.63 animated bodies. See under icons animated statues: location of animation ritual , 197n.151; vs. relics, 37; self as, 32– 35, 39–40, 195n.111 Antoninus, 140 Antony, Saint, 36, 106, 111, 152, 217n.22 Aphrodite, 74 Apollo, 133, 134, 136 Apophthegmata patrum, 108, 122 Apuleius, 74 Arch of Constantine, 44, 44–45, 197n.15 Aristophanes, 136 Armstrong, A. H., 26 art and literature, ancient: art, poetry, and relics, 55–57 (see also Peristephanon); cultural aesthetics of, 48, 198n.23; dazzle in, 73; dissonant echoing in, 43–49, 55–57, 61, 63; framing devices (columns or trees) in, 47; jeweled style in, 17–18, 43–44, 61, 188n.2; ornamentation in, 47, 48; portrait art, 166–67, 172–73, 176, 226–27n.17; row formation in, 46–47, 47. See also aesthetics; ekphrasis Artemios, Saint, 106–9, 113, 142, 154–56, 213n.30, 224n.37 art speaking, 55, 200n.69 ascetics: aestheticized as verbal artifacts, 59–60; Athanasius on, 36; collective biographies of, 57–61, 118–19 (see also hagiography , collective); cult of relics promoted by, 36–37, 98–99; desert, 35, 48, 57–58, 110, 121–24, 127, 136, 140–41; discourses of, 109–10; as emergent people, 124, 218nn.44–45; extreme practices of, 121–22; female, 99; identification with Christ, 123–24; restless activity of, 124; on salvation via the incarnate Christ, 35–36; on the sanctity of the human body, 95; on seeing holiness, 35; spiritual powers of, 122–23; 250 Index ascetics (continued) standing by, 140–41. See also Ambrose; Gregory of Nyssa; holy men; Jerome; Victricius of Rouen Asterius of Amaseia: Ekphrasis on Saint Euphemia, 56, 68–69, 104–5, 203n.40, 213n.18; on relics, 62–63, 67–69, 203n.40 Athanasius of Alexandria: on ascetics, 36; on the emperor’s icon as analogous to Father–Son relation, 150; Life of St. Antony, 36, 106, 111, 152, 217n.22; scholarship on, 16 Athenagoras, 6–7 Attis, 74, 205n.75 Augustine of Hippo, Saint: on body, 207n.17; The City of God, 77; on conceptual knowledge and judgment, 89–90; on Cyprian, 14, 55, 65–66, 86–87; on dancing, 85–86; De doctrina christiana, 103, 208n.35; on icons of saints, 7; on idolatry, 65, 110; on imagination, 88–89, 208n.38, 209n.41; on intercession by martyrs, 90–91, 209n.55; Literal Commentary on Genesis, 88, 208n.34; on martyrs, 37, 64, 66–67, 87, 89, 202nn.15–16, 207n.25, 209n.48; on mental theater, 82, 85–90, 100–101, 207nn.25–26, 207n.30, 208nn.34–35, 208n.38, 209n.41; puns on saints’ names by, 55, 65; on the relics of Saint Stephen, 77, 199n.43; scholarship on, 16; on seeing, 86–89, 91, 207n.20, 207n.30; on signs, 88, 208n.35 Augustus, Emperor, 133, 137, 226–27n.17 Ausonius, 58; ‘‘Cupido cruciatus,’’ 54, 56, 75, 200n.69; Epigrams, 198n.27; ‘‘Griphus Ternarii Numeri,’’ 52; ‘‘Mosella,’’ 49, 53–54, 201–2n.4, 204n.55; ‘‘Riddle on the Number Three,’’ 52; ‘‘Technopaegnion ,’’ 52–53 Bachelard, Gaston, 79, 179–80 Bamboozled (Lee), 216–17n...
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