Taken in by the Roman Consul Scipio, Polybius was allowed to travel while remaining a captive and witnessed the Punic wars and the sack of Carthage. First-hand accounts of these and other world-altering events suffuse his Histories and info…According to Pliny the Elder in The Natural History, 77-79 C.E. (in an example of laodogmatika that Polybius would have contested) the art of painting originated with people tracing the outlines of one another’s shadows. Pliny later alludes…As Polybius of Arcadia, captive of Rome, champion of facticity and ‘universal history’ against tragedy and spectacle, fades, his namesake game, one (of many) early vectors overwhelming facticity with spectacular memesis and incipient necrop…
Erwin Panofsky
art historian · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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The excerpts appear to reference Polybius (the ancient Greek historian), not Erwin Panofsky, suggesting a possible indexing error in your course materials. Panofsky, the art historian and iconographer known for developing systematic methods to interpret visual meaning through historical layers, does not appear in these particular passages—which discuss ancient Roman historiography and theories of painting's origins rather than art historical methodology or visual interpretation.
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