This paper examines the role of Helios as an all-seeing deity in scenes of the adultery of Venus and Mars based on classical literary sources and mythological reliefs in Roman funerary art, and also elucidates its afterlife in Christianity. Few Roman examples survive that explicitly show this act of infidelity, therefore particular emphasis is placed on a relief from a mirror from Viminacium, the province of Upper Moesia, and the altar Ara Casali, now in the Vatican Museums. The paper traces the general development of the symbolic roles of Helios in different thematic representations and the context in which Helios as an all-seeing God is represented in Early Christian and Medieval art. The myth and the role of Helios in it could be understood in different contexts: as an inter alia neo-Pythagorean, celestial, and in moralizing. The role of Helios in the moralizing context is, however, indisputable. This aspect will be a key motivation in the transformation of the myth in the Middle Ag...es and Renaissance, not only in literary sources but in visual art as well.
TY - JOUR
AU - Pilipović, Sanja
AU - Milanović, Ljubomir
PY - 2015
UR - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/491
AB - This paper examines the role of Helios as an all-seeing deity in scenes of the adultery of Venus and Mars based on classical literary sources and mythological reliefs in Roman funerary art, and also elucidates its afterlife in Christianity. Few Roman examples survive that explicitly show this act of infidelity, therefore particular emphasis is placed on a relief from a mirror from Viminacium, the province of Upper Moesia, and the altar Ara Casali, now in the Vatican Museums. The paper traces the general development of the symbolic roles of Helios in different thematic representations and the context in which Helios as an all-seeing God is represented in Early Christian and Medieval art. The myth and the role of Helios in it could be understood in different contexts: as an inter alia neo-Pythagorean, celestial, and in moralizing. The role of Helios in the moralizing context is, however, indisputable. This aspect will be a key motivation in the transformation of the myth in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, not only in literary sources but in visual art as well.
PB - Iaşi : Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
T2 - Classica et Christiana
T1 - All-Seeing Helios in the Adultery of Venus: the Image and Contex in Roman art and its Christian Afterlife
EP - 499
IS - 10
SP - 479
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_491
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author = "Pilipović, Sanja and Milanović, Ljubomir",
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abstract = "This paper examines the role of Helios as an all-seeing deity in scenes of the adultery of Venus and Mars based on classical literary sources and mythological reliefs in Roman funerary art, and also elucidates its afterlife in Christianity. Few Roman examples survive that explicitly show this act of infidelity, therefore particular emphasis is placed on a relief from a mirror from Viminacium, the province of Upper Moesia, and the altar Ara Casali, now in the Vatican Museums. The paper traces the general development of the symbolic roles of Helios in different thematic representations and the context in which Helios as an all-seeing God is represented in Early Christian and Medieval art. The myth and the role of Helios in it could be understood in different contexts: as an inter alia neo-Pythagorean, celestial, and in moralizing. The role of Helios in the moralizing context is, however, indisputable. This aspect will be a key motivation in the transformation of the myth in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, not only in literary sources but in visual art as well.",
publisher = "Iaşi : Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi",
journal = "Classica et Christiana",
title = "All-Seeing Helios in the Adultery of Venus: the Image and Contex in Roman art and its Christian Afterlife",
pages = "499-479",
number = "10",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_491"
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Pilipović, S.,& Milanović, L.. (2015). All-Seeing Helios in the Adultery of Venus: the Image and Contex in Roman art and its Christian Afterlife. in Classica et Christiana
Iaşi : Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi.(10), 479-499.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_491
Pilipović S, Milanović L. All-Seeing Helios in the Adultery of Venus: the Image and Contex in Roman art and its Christian Afterlife. in Classica et Christiana. 2015;(10):479-499.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_491 .
Pilipović, Sanja, Milanović, Ljubomir, "All-Seeing Helios in the Adultery of Venus: the Image and Contex in Roman art and its Christian Afterlife" in Classica et Christiana, no. 10 (2015):479-499,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_491 .
