03318nam 2200661Ia 450 99620450950331620230801230653.00-19-934417-5(CKB)2670000000357079(EBL)3055316(OCoLC)842363893(SSID)ssj0000887061(PQKBManifestationID)11539653(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887061(PQKBWorkID)10834679(PQKB)11520688(StDuBDS)EDZ0000124415(MiAaPQ)EBC3055316(EXLCZ)99267000000035707920120511d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe captor's image[electronic resource] Greek culture in Roman ecphrasis /Basil DufalloNew York Oxford University Pressc20131 online resource (294 p.)Classical culture and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-933245-2 0-19-973587-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and index.""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""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.Classical culture and society.Latin literatureHistory and criticismEkphrasisGreek literatureInfluenceAuthors, LatinArt, GreekInfluenceCivilization, Greco-RomanLatin literatureHistory and criticism.Ekphrasis.Greek literatureInfluence.Authors, Latin.Art, GreekInfluence.Civilization, Greco-Roman.870.9/22Dufallo Basil479876MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996204509503316The captor's image2393960UNISA