Epic Visions
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Epic Visions

Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception

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Epic Visions

Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception

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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 matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall-painting. The chapters use a variety of methods to address the relationship between narrative and visuality, exploring how and why epic has inspired artists, authors and directors, and offering fresh visual interpretations of epic texts. Themes and issues discussed include: intermediality, ekphrasis and panegyric, illusion and deception, imagery and deferral, alienation and involvement, the multiplicity of possible visual responses to texts, three-dimensionality, miniaturisation, epic as cultural capital, and the specificity of genres, both literary and visual.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781316260821
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures
  3. Tables
  4. Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy and perception in Iliad 101
  9. 2 Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil
  10. 3 Visualising Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
  11. 4 The look of the Late Antique Emperor and the art of praise
  12. 5 Intermediality in Latin epic - en video quaecumque audita
  13. 6 Viewing violence in Statius' Thebaid and the films of Quentin Tarantino
  14. 7 Storyboarding and epic
  15. 8 Epic in the round
  16. 9 Split-screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii
  17. 10 Epic visions on the Tabulae Iliacae
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index locorum
  20. General index