Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature : the world's forge
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Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature : the world's forge
（Image, text and culture in classical antiquity / series editor, Michael Squire）
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
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Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-394) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first detailed study of a large family of ancient ecphrastic shields, often studied separately, but never as an ensemble with its own development.
The main objective consists of establishing a theoretical and historical framework that is applied to a series of famous ecphrastic shields starting with the Homeric shield of Achilles. The latter is reinterpreted as a paradigmatic "thing" whose echoing down the centuries is reinforced by the fundamental connection between ekphrasis and artefacts as its primary objects. The book demonstrates that although the ancient sources do not limit ekphrasis to artificial creations, the latter are most efficient in bringing out the intimate affinity between artefacts and vivid mental images as two kind of entities that lack a natural scale and are rightly understood as ontologically unstable.
Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature: The World's Forge should be read by those interested in ancient culture, art and philosophy, but also by those fascinated by the broader issue of imagination and by the interplay between the natural and the artificial.
目次
Introduction 1. Limits of defi nition: from progymnasmata to the ecphrastic life at large 2. The shield of Achilles: between the body and the universe 3. The shield of Heracles: the monstrous and the civilized 4. The shield of Aeneas: touching the mental image 5. Other voices, other shields: the ecphrastic life mutating Conclusion: ekphrasis in the expanded field
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