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This seminar explores two intertwining threads: the materiality of texts and the visuality of the textual, with a particular emphasis on the art and literature of the ancient Mediterranean world. We will focus on inscriptions carved on monuments, painted onto ceramics, and tessellated into floors alongside imagined images, literary ekphrasis, and the visuality of performance. In analyzing these together, we will explore, critique, and experiment with the role of writing in the History of Art. Students from all sub-fields and disciplines warmly welcome. No prerequisites.