Research Catalog

Title

Epic visions : visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception / Helen Lovatt and Caroline Vout [editors].

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Lovatt, Helen, 1974-
• Vout, Caroline

Description

xviii, 327 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Art and literature
• Civilization, Ancient, in art
• Visual perception in literature
• Imagery (Psychology) in literature
• Object (Aesthetics) in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-320) and indexes.

Contents

Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy, and perception in Iliad / Jon Hesk -- Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil / Helen Lovatt -- Visualizing Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaucus' Argonautica / Emma Buckley -- The look of the late antique emperor and the art of praise / Roger Rees -- Intermediality in Latin epic: en video quaecumque audita / Martin T. Dinter -- Viewing violence in Statius' Thebiad and the films of Quentin Tarantino / Kyle Gervais -- Storyboarding and epic / Lynn S. Fotheringham and Matt Brooker -- Epic in the round / Caroline Vout -- Split screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii / Katharina Lorenz -- Epic visions on the Tabulae iliacae / Michael Squire.

Call Number

JFF 13-1702

ISBN

• 9781107039384 (hardback)
• 110703938X (hardback)

LCCN

2013011070

OCLC

842316245

Title

Epic visions : visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception / Helen Lovatt and Caroline Vout [editors].

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-320) and indexes.

Added Author

Lovatt, Helen, 1974- editor.

Vout, Caroline, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 13-1702