Lovatt, Helen. <br/><br/>
Epic Visions :  Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception. 

 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (348 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Defining epic; Visualising epic; 1 Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy and perception in Iliad 101; Introduction; Why the Doloneia?; Agamemnon's gaze; Difficulties of vision and interpretation; Dolon's trick?; Losing (sight of) Rhesus; 2 Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil; Opera and epic*; Trojan visions; How epic is Les Troyens?; The Trojan horse; The death of Dido; 3 Visualising Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica; Introduction; Epiphany and recognition at Lemnos. Venus' Bacchae at LemnosSeeing Medea; Conclusion; 4 The look of the Late Antique Emperor and the art of praise; I have seen the emperor; Epic and viewing the emperor; The emperor on the battlefield; The emperor in the city; The emperor as work of art; 5 Intermediality in Latin epic --  en video quaecumque audita; Ekphrasis; Intermediality; Ovid; Lucan; Conclusions; 6 Viewing violence in Statius' Thebaid and the films of Quentin Tarantino; Tydeus and the fifty Thebans; Kiddo and the Crazy 88; Hypsipyle and the Lemnians; Marvin and Mr Blonde; Polynices and Eteocles; Hitler and the Bear Jew. Conclusion7 Storyboarding and epic; Introduction; Dido in Aeneid 4.68-75; Stag and hounds in Aeneid 7.475-95; Conclusion; 8 Epic in the round; Epic and sculpture; The pictorial qualities of Homer; Sculpture and epic distance; Epic in three dimensions; a. Thornycroft's Teucer; born Carpeaux's Hector; Beyond the Iliad; 9 Split-screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii; The Casa di Octavius Quartio (Regio II 2.2); Room (h); The Heracles frieze; The Iliad frieze; Heracles on top of Troy; 'Split screen' epic and epic visions. 10 Epic visions on the Tabulae IliacaeTabulating Homer; Entering the pictures; Sliding as you will; Epic visions of epic visions; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index. 
<br/><br/> A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection exploring different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic in both ancient and modern culture. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781316263594 9781316266144 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.<br/>Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.<br/>Art and literature.<br/>Civilization, Ancient, in art.<br/>Visual perception in literature.<br/>Imagery (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Object (Aesthetics) in literature.<br/>Art and literature.<br/>Civilization, Ancient, in art.<br/>Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.<br/>Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.<br/>Imagery (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Object (Aesthetics) in literature.<br/>Visual perception in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PA3022  / .E653 2013