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Author:   Christopher Chinn
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   449
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789004498853

ISBN 10:   9004498850
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   04 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Statius and the Visual  1 Ekphrasis  2 Theories of Vision  3 Statius and Vision 1 Statius’ Catalogue and Tragic Visuality  1 Aeschylus’ Shield Scene  2 Statius and Aeschylus  3 Visual Responsion in Statius’ Catalogue  4 Statius and Euripides  5 The Female Gaze in Statius’ Catalogue  6 Statius and Athenian Tragedy 2 Statius’ Catalogue and Epic Visuality  1 Visual Prologues  2 Strategies of Sequencing  3 Statius and the Homeric Catalogue of Ships  4 Statius and Vergil’s Catalogue of Italians  5 Statius’ Murals: Hippomedon  6 Statius’ Murals: Capaneus  7 Vergil and Homer in Statius’ Catalogue 3 Ekphrasis, Adultery, and Metanarrative  1 Vulcan’s Workshop  2 Harmonia’s Necklace  3 Venus’ Speech  4 The Temple of Mars  5 The House of Sleep  6 Narrative Implications  7 Visual Implications 4 Statius’ Shields  1 The Shield of Theseus  2 Theseus’ Shield, Crete, and the Aeneid  3 Theseus’ Shield, Bulls, and Catullus  4 Theseus’ Shield and Visuality  5 The Shield of Crenaeus  6 Ismenos and the Thebaid  7 Vision and Crenaeus’ Shield  8 Visualizing Epic 5 Achilles’ Blush  1 Seneca and Others on the Blush  2 In Chiron’s Cave  3 Achilles Sees Deidamia  4 Achilles Transformed  5 Arms and the Boy  6 The Anger of Achilles  7 Reading the Blush 6 Silvae 1.1 and the Visuality of Empire  1 Epic Visuality  2 Divine Artistry  3 Illusion  4 Human Artistry  5 The Visuality of Empire  6 Conclusion 7 Silvae 4.6 and the Visuality of Satire  1 Ekphrastic Satire?  2 Colossus and “Colossus”  3 Epigram at the Table  4 Epic Visuality, Again  5 Conclusion 8 Visualizing the Good Life: the Villa Poems  1 Statius and Horace: Silv. 1.3  2 Silvae 2.2: Lyric Visuality  3 Silv. 2.2: Epic Visuality  4 Conclusion 9 Statius and the Erotic Gaze  1 The Bath of Claudius Etruscus  2 The Tree of Atedius Melior  3 Conclusions Conclusion: Statius’ Visual Poetics  1 Thebaid  2 Achilleid  3 Silvae  4 Dracontius and the Deviant Viewer  5 Claudian and the Adultery Metanarrative  6 The Achilleid in Claudian and Dracontius  7 Ausonius and the Silvae Bibliography Index

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Christopher Chinn, PhD (2002), University of Washington, is Associate Professor of Classics at Pomona College (Claremont, CA, USA). He has published numerous articles and chapters on Imperial Latin literature, especially Statius and Pliny.

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