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portada Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
1998
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0300073534
ISBN13
9780300073539
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Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid

Michael C. J. Putnam (Author) · Yale University Press · Hardcover

Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid - Michael C. J. Putnam

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Synopsis "Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid "

This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil’s final masterpiece, the Aeneid. Virgil uses ekphrasis―a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object―to tell us something about the grander text in which it is embedded, says Michael C. J. Putnam. Individually and as a group, Virgil’s ekphrases enrich the reader’s understanding of the meaning of the epic. Putnam shows how the descriptions of works of art, and of people, places, and even animals, provide metaphors for the entire poem and reinforce its powerful ambiguities.Putnam offers insightful analyses of the most extensive and famous ekphrases in the Aeneid―the paintings in Juno’s temples in Carthage, the Daedalus frieze, and the shield of Aeneas. He also considers shorter and less well known examples―the stories of Ganymede, the Trojan shepherd swept into the sky by an amorous Jupiter; the fifty daughters of Danaus, ordered by their father to kill their husbands on their wedding night; and Virgil’s original tale of a domesticated wild stag whose killing sparks a war between Trojans and Italians. These ekphrases incorporate major themes of the Aeneid, an enduring formative text of the Western tradition, and provide a rich variety of interpretive perspectives on the poem.

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