The Epic Gaze
Author: Helen Lovatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1107016118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRe-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.
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Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Alexandros Kampakoglou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 311056906X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in ancient Greek as evidence for this. Seeing was also however often associated with mere appearances, false perception and deception. Gazing and visuality in the ancient Greek world have had a central place in the scholarship for some time now, enjoying an abundance of pertinent discussions and bibliography. If this book differs from the previous publications, it is in its emphasis on diverse genres: the concepts ‘gaze’, ‘vision’ and ‘visuality’ are considered across different Greek genres and media. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) were encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’ of the characters in the narrative. By setting a broad time span, the evolution of visual culture in Greece is tracked, while also addressing broader topics such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, and the position of visuality in a hierarchisation of the senses.
The Roman Gaze
Author: David Fredrick
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-11-18
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780801869617
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A Web of Fantasies
Author: Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0814209998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on recent scholarship in art, film, literary theory, and gender studies, A Web of Fantasies examines the complexities, symbolism, and interactions between gaze and image in Ovid's Metamorphoses and forms a gender-sensitive perspective. It is a feminist study of Ovid's epic, which includes many stories about change, in which discussions of viewers, viewing, and imagery strive to illuminate Ovid's constructions of male and female. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell discusses the text from the perspective of three types of gazes: of characters looking, of the poet who narrates visually charged stories, and of the reader who "sees" the woven images in the text. Arguing against certain theorists who deny the possibility of any feminine vision in a male-authored poem, the author maintains that the female point of view can be released through the traditional feminine occupation of weaving, featuring the woven images of Arachne (involved in a weaving contest in which she tried to best the goddess Athena, who turned her into a spider) and Philomela (who had her tongue cut out, so had to weave a tapestry depicting her rape and mutilation)." "The book observes that while feminist models of the gaze can create productive readings of the poem, these models are too limited and reductive for such a protean and complex text as Metamorphoses. This work brings forth the pervasive importance of the act of looking in the poem which will affect future readings of Ovid's epic."--BOOK JACKET.
Virgil's Gaze
Author: Joseph D Reed
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-02-09
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 140082768X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly--if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas' foundational journey from Troy to Italy, Virgil defines Roman national identity only provisionally, through oppositions to other ethnic identities--especially Trojan, Carthaginian, Italian, and Greek--oppositions that shift with the shifting perspective of the narrative. Roman identity emerges as multivalent and constantly changing rather than unitary and stable. The Roman self that the poem gives us is capacious--adaptable to a universal nationality, potentially an imperial force--but empty at its heart. However, the incongruities that produce this emptiness are also what make the Aeneid endlessly readable, since they forestall a single perspective and a single notion of the Roman. Focusing on questions of narratology, intertextuality, and ideology, Virgil's Gaze offers new readings of such major episodes as the fall of Troy, the pageant of heroes in the underworld, the death of Turnus, and the disconcertingly sensual descriptions of the slain Euryalus, Pallas, and Camilla. While advancing a highly original argument, Reed's wide-ranging study also serves as an ideal introduction to the poetics and principal themes of the Aeneid.
Engendering Rome
Author: A. M. Keith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-02-24
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780521556217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display in epic has received scant attention in the critical literature. This study represents an attempt to restore female characters to visibility in Roman epic and to examine the discursive operations that effect their marginalisation within both the genre and the critical tradition it has given rise to. The five chapters can be read either as self-contained essays or as a cumulative exploration of the gender dynamics of the Roman epic tradition. The issues addressed are of interest not just to classicists but also to students of gender studies.
The Cambridge Companion to the Epic
Author: Catherine Bates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-22
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139828274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.
Medusa's Gaze
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0199739315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long and intricate history of the beautifully carved Hellenistic style Egyptian bowl, from the days of Cleopatra to Constantinople, the French Revolution, and to near destruction by a deranged museum guard in 1925.
The Gaze of Homer
Author: Soteroula Constantinidou
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789603544999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The present study is an overall investigation of the aspects and functions of light as well as of visual perceptions and the dependence of certain narratives upon notions of light and brightness, of the symbolism and the experience of light in the Homeric world and especially in the Iliad."--P. 2.
Ishtar and Izdubar, the epic of Babylon; or, The Babylonian goddess of love and the hero and warrior king, restored in mod. verse by L.L.C. Hamilton
Author: Gilgamesh
Publisher:
Published: 1884
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13:
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