The first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis in Roman literature, The Captor's Image challenges pervasive views to argue for it as a site of subtle, ongoing competition between Greek and Roman cultures.
The first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis in Roman literature, The Captor's Image challenges pervasive views to argue for it as a site of subtle, ongoing competition between Greek and Roman cultures.
Basil Dufallo is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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