The captor's image : Greek culture in Roman ecphrasis /
| Main Author: | Dufallo, Basil. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: |
Classical culture and society
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| Subjects: |
Table of 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.