TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lovatt,Helen
AU  - Vout,Caroline
TI  - Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception
SN  - 9781316263594
AV  - PA3022 .E653 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Epic poetry, Greek
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin
KW  - Art and literature
KW  - Civilization, Ancient, in art
KW  - Visual perception in literature
KW  - Imagery (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Object (Aesthetics) in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection exploring different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic in both ancient and modern culture
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