The captor's image

Basil Dufallo

earliest edition we have, 2012 Oxford University Press, 2012 279 pages

Classical culture and society

"An influential view of ecphrasis--the literary description of art objects--chiefly treats it as a way for authors to write about their own texts without appearing to do so, and even insist upon the aesthetic dominance of the literary text over the visual image. However, when considering its use in ancient Roman literature, this interpretation proves insufficient. The Captor's Image argues for the need to see Roman e...

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Captor's Image edition · 2013 · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9781299600928
Captor's Image edition · 2013 · Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780199344178
The captor's image edition · 2012 · Oxford University Press · 279 pages · 9780199735877

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