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

Author/creator Dufallo, Basil
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Description279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesClassical culture and society
Classical culture and society. ^A602305
Contents Machine generated contents note: 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2012017753
ISBN9780199735877
ISBN0199735875

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PA6021 .D84 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold