The captor's image : Greek culture in Roman ecphrasis

1. Verfasser: Dufallo, Basil , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: Classical culture and society
Schlagworte:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Ekphrasis.
Greek literature > Influence.
Authors, Latin.
Art, Greek > Influence.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Parallelausgabe: Dufallo, Basil., Captor's image. (Print version:) | ISSN: 9780199735877
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Greek culture in Roman ecphrasis
  • Staging ecphrasis in early Latin literature : from Naevius to Plautus and Terence
  • Becoming Ariadne : marveling at Peleus's coverlet with the inconsistent narrator of Catullus 64
  • The challenge of rustic art : ideals of order in Vergil, Eclogues 3 and Horace, Satires 1.8
  • Describing the divine : the ecphrastic temples of Vergil, Georgics 3.13-36 and Propertius, Elegies 2.31
  • Heroic objects : ecphrasis in the Aeneid and Metamorphoses
  • Sex, satire, and the hybrid self in Petronian ecphrasis
  • The patron's image : philhellenism, panegyric, and ecphrasis in statius and martial
  • Epilogue: Captives and captors : Apuleius and Philostratus.

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