The Mythos of the Chaoskampf and the Conflict Myths Informing the Royal Pictorial Repertoire
Abstract
Chapter VI provides case studies for the conceptual metaphor of conflict myth in the image reaching from the fourth in the first millennium BCE. Its approach is informed by Aby Warburg’s emphasis on gesture language and its history of reception as developed in his Mnemosyne Atlas and by Erwin Panofsky’s approach to iconology to develop the concept of interpictoriality as a network of pictorial references or Bildgedächtnis (collective pictorial memory).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Visual Culture and Art Theory
Cultural and Mythological Studies
Classical Antiquity Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 137–218
- Publication date
- 3 February 2026
- Document type
- Book chapter