Epic visions : visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception /

This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic mat...

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Další autoři: Lovatt, Helen, 1974- (Editor), Vout, Caroline (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Vydání:First published
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On-line přístup:Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU
Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: Epic visions
Obsah:
  • Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy, and perception in Iliad / Jon Hesk
  • Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil / Helen Lovatt
  • Visualizing Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaucus' Argonautica / Emma Buckley
  • The look of the late antique emperor and the art of praise / Roger Rees
  • Intermediality in Latin epic: en video quaecumque audita / Martin T. Dinter
  • Viewing violence in Statius' Thebiad and the films of Quentin Tarantino / Kyle Gervais
  • Storyboarding and epic / Lynn S. Fotheringham and Matt Brooker
  • Epic in the round / Caroline Vout
  • Split screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii / Katharina Lorenz
  • Epic visions on the Tabulae iliacae / Michael Squire