Research Catalog

Title

Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature : the world's forge / Karel Thein.

Author

Thein, Karel, 1961-

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

vi, 402 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity

Uniform Title

Image, text and culture in classical antiquity.

Subject

• Shields in literature
• Ekphrasis
• Classical literature > History and criticism
• Classical literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-1448

ISBN

• 9780367722548
• 0367722542
• 9780367722586
• 0367722585
• 9781003154051 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021018016

OCLC

1251738484

Author

Thein, Karel, 1961- author.

Title

Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature : the world's forge / Karel Thein.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity

Image, text and culture in classical antiquity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Thein, Karel, 1961- Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. 9781003154051 (DLC) 2021018017

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1448