<b>Literature and Image represented in the Classic Art: An analysis <em>Persephone’ abduction</em></b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i1.700

Abstract

This article is a brief theory’s research about the reading of texts and images, historic topics and a social-cultural summary approach of Greek and Roman peoples in the Classic Art construction. The study is complemented by the analysis of a mythological text and a reference image, of which purpose is to observe the elements linked to the process of reading, between literature and painting, from the way to perceive and to conceive the world among these peoples. The corpus to be analyzed is a painting that represents Persephone’s abduction and a narrative text about this episode in the Greek Mythology. Both serve to a comparison that shows a relationship between the two arts and their transpositions; to the reader/receptor, the possible perceptions and analogies from the visual and linguistic offered signs.