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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Ecphrasis"”.
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
… thesis, entitled ‘Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader’ has as its main focus the ecphrastic work of Lucian, a second-century CE Syrian-Greek writer, and one of the most prolific and versatile writers of Greek imperial literature. It argues that imperial, and in …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
… descriptions of artworks (a phenomenon known as “ecphrasis”). Even though these descriptions have received much scholarly attention in recent decades, Classicists have not yet taken seriously an approach to ecphrasis that was demonstrably popular in Rome: namely, to read it as privileged space for …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
… personification of Fama, and especially the ecphrasis of the House of Fama in Metamorphoses 12.39–63. It argues that Fama is central to Ovid’s conception of his relationship to previous epic authors and to his own poetic immortality. The second chapter turns to an investigation of Statius’ …