{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1600.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1600.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1600.tlg001.local001","title":"Εἰκόνες","titleGreek":"Εἰκόνες","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Philostratus Sophista","authorityName":"PHILOSTRATUS Major Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1600-philostratus-major/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1600-philostratus-major/","editors":["Carl Ludwig Kayser"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Flavii Philostrati Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1871","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaphilostrati02philuoft/page/294/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Philostratus Sophista. Εἰκόνες. ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. Flavii Philostrati Opera, Leipzig, Teubner, 1871. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1600.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"ὅστις μὴ ἀσπάζεται τὴν ζωγραφίαν, ἀδικεῖ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἀδικεῖ δὲ καὶ σοφίαν, ὁπόση ἐς ποιητὰς ἥκει — φορὰ γὰρ ἴση ἀμφοῖν ἐς τὰ τῶν ἡρώων εἴδη καὶ ἔργα — ξυμμετρίαν τε οὐκ ἐπαινεῖ, διʼ ἣν καὶ λόγου ἡ τέχνη ἅπτεται. καὶ βουλομένῳ μὲν σοφίζεσθαι θεῶν τὸ εὕρημα διά τε τὰ ἐν γῇ εῖδη, ὁπόσα τοὺς λειμῶνας αἱ ὧραι γράφουσι, διά τε τὰ ἐν οὐρανῷ φαινόμενα, βασανίζοντι δὲ τὴν γένεσιν τῆς τέχνης μίμησις μὲν εὕρημα πρεσβύτατον καὶ ξυγγενέστατον τῇ φύσει, εὗρον δὲ αὐτὴν σοφοὶ ἄνδρες τὸ μὲν ζωγραφίαν, τὸ δὲ πλαστικὴν φήσαντες. καὶ πλαστικῆς μὲν πολλὰ εἴδη, καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸ τὸ πλάττειν καὶ ἡ ἐν τῷ χαλκῷ μίμησις καὶ οἱ ξέοντες τὴν λυγδίνην ἢ τὴν Παρίαν λίθον καὶ ὁ ἐλέφας, καί, νὴ Δία, ἡ γλυφικὴ πλαστική, ζωγραφία δὲ ξυμβέβληται μὲν ἐκ χρωμάτων, πράττει δὲ οὐ τοῦτο μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλείω σοφίζεται ἀπὸ τούτου γε ἑνὸς ὅντος ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν πολλῶν ἡ ἑτέρα τέχνη, σκιάν τε γὰρ ἀποφαίνει καὶ βλέμμα γιγνώσκει ἄλλο μὲν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1600.tlg001.local001/#tlg1600-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1600.tlg001.local001/#tlg1600-tlg001-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1600.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1600.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1600/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}