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Virgil's Epic Designs - Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (Hardcover, New)
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Virgil's Epic Designs - Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (Hardcover, New)
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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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