caa a22 4500 386319871 CHVBK 20180307111621.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500005034 doi S0068673500005034 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500005034 Goff Barbara King's College, Cambridge Euripides' Ion 1132-1165: the tent [Elektronische Daten] [Barbara Goff] Thirty-three lines in the Ion are devoted to describing the tent in which Ion celebrates his new-found status as heir to Xouthos and the royal line of Athens. The passage may properly be called an ἔκφρασις, a description in language of an artistic object constructed in another medium. An ἔκφρασις in drama differs from those occurring in narrative because material objects in drama retain the potential to be made material, i.e. to appear on the stage, thus dramatically closing the gap between word and world that the ἔκφρασις so patently opens. While this gap remains, the ἔκφρασις makes especially complex demands on the audience's imagination, and in the Ion on their patience too - for the ἔκφρασις must be the antithesis of the action and drama, the progression of the play, a version of which the audience presumably wants and expects from the panting messenger. Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1988 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 34(1988), 42-54 0068-6735 34<42 1988 34 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005034 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005034 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goff Barbara King's College, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 34(1988), 42-54 0068-6735 34<42 1988 34 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge