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Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid

Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0300073534
ISBN13: 9780300073539
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Aug 11 1998
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.77 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
In his final masterpiece, the Aeneid, Virgil frequently uses ekphrasis-a self-contained aside, a pause to describe a work of art or other object. Virgil's ekphrases incorporate major themes of the epic, enrich the reader's understanding of its meaning, and provide metaphors for the entire poem, says Michael C. J. Putnam in this first comprehensive study of the ekphrases in the Aeneid.

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