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Autore |
Dufallo Basil |
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Titolo |
The captor's image [[electronic resource] ] : Greek culture in Roman ecphrasis / / Basil Dufallo |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classical culture and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin literature - History and criticism |
Ekphrasis |
Greek literature - Influence |
Authors, Latin |
Art, Greek - Influence |
Civilization, Greco-Roman |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction. Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis""; ""1. Staging Ecphrasis in Early Latin Literature: From Naevius to Plautus and Terence""; ""2. Becoming Ariadne: Marveling at Peleus�s Coverlet with the Inconsistent Narrator of Catullus 64""; ""3. The Challenge of Rustic Art: Ideals of Order in Vergil, Eclogues 3 and Horace, Satires 1.8""; ""4. Describing the Divine: The Ecphrastic Temples of Vergil, Georgics 3.13�36 and Propertius, Elegies 2.31""; ""5. Heroic Objects: Ecphrasis in the Aeneid and Metamorphoses"" |
""6. Sex, Satire, and the Hybrid Self in Petronian Ecphrasis""""7. The Patron�s Image: Philhellenism, Panegyric, and Ecphrasis in Statius and Martial""; ""Epilogue. Captives and Captors: Apuleius and Philostratus""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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which the Romans sought, over some four hundred years of their history, to redefine Romanness both with and against Greekness. |
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