Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid

by Michael C.J. Putnam

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300073534
• ISBN13: 9780300073539
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher