Innovazione e circolazione. La caccia al cinghiale calidonio nel IV secolo a.C., tra Anatolia e Grecia

The paper considers innovative impulses in Greek Art of the 4th century BC by examining representations of the Calydonian boar hunt in monumental sculpture. The analysis moves from the iconographic peculiarities of this myth in the programme of the western Anatolian monument known as the Heroon of Trysa (ancient Lycia, present-day Turkey). Comparison with the earlier tradition reveals the prominence here of wounded hunters assisted by their fellows. The only parallel for the theme of solidarity between hunters in this myth known to us is to be found in the eastern pediment of the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea (Peloponnese, mainland Greece), produced a few decades after the Heroon of Trysa. The paper discusses not only this iconographic innovation, but also explores possible connexions of the two shores of the Aegean by stressing the mobility of artists and the scope of patronage between Anatolia and Greece.