| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Classical culture and society
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Classical culture and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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, to redefine Romanness both with and against Greekness. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin literature. |
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Ekphrasis.
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Ekphrasis. |
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Greek literature -- Influence.
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Greek literature -- Influence. |
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Greek literature. |
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Authors, Latin.
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Authors, Latin. |
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Art, Greek -- Influence.
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Art, Greek -- Influence. |
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Art, Greek. |
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Civilization, Greco-Roman.
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Civilization, Greco-Roman. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dufallo, Basil. Captor's image. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199735877 (DLC) 2012017753 |
| ISBN |
9780199344178 (electronic book) |
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0199344175 (electronic book) |
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0199332452 (electronic book) |
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9780199332458 (electronic book) |
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9781299600928 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299600921 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780199735877 |
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0199735875 |
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