Epic visions
Subtitle: visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception
By: Helen Lovatt and Caroline Vout [editors]
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781107039384
Subjects: Visual perception in literature; Epos; Art and literature; Civilization, Ancient, in art; History and criticism; Imagery (Psychology) in literature; Object (Aesthetics) in literature; Rezeption; Visualisierung; Latein; Latin Epic poetry; Griechisch; Greek Epic poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy, and perception in Iliad / Jon Hesk; title: Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil / Helen Lovatt; title: Visualizing Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaucus' Argonautica / Emma Buckley; title: The look of the late antique emperor and the art of praise / Roger Rees; title: Intermediality in Latin epic: en video quaecumque audita / Martin T. Dinter; title: Viewing violence in Statius' Thebiad and the films of Quentin Tarantino / Kyle Gervais; title: Storyboarding and epic / Lynn S. Fotheringham and Matt Brooker; title: Epic in the round / Caroline Vout; title: Split screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii / Katharina Lorenz; title: Epic visions on the Tabulae iliacae / Michael Squire.