The captor's image : Greek culture in Roman ecphrasis /

The first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis at Rome, 'The Captor's Image' resituates a major literary trope deep within its hybrid cultural context, and argues for ecphrasis as a cultural practice through which the Romans sought, over some four hundred years of their history...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dufallo, Basil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Classical culture and society.
Temas:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Ekphrasis.
Greek literature > Influence.
Authors, Latin.
Art, Greek > Influence.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Littérature grecque > Influence.
Écrivains latins.
Civilisation gréco-romaine.
ekphrasis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Art, Greek > Influence
Authors, Latin
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Ekphrasis
Greek literature > Influence
Latin literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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