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A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection exploring different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic in both ancient and modern culture.
List of contents
Introduction Helen Lovatt and Caroline Vout; 1. Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy and perception in Iliad 10 Jon Hesk; 2. Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil Helen Lovatt; 3. Visualising Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica Emma Buckley; 4. The look of the late antique emperor and the art of praise Roger Rees; 5. Intermediality in Latin epic - en video quaecumque audita Martin T. Dinter; 6. Viewing violence in Statius' Thebaid and the films of Quentin Tarantino Kyle Gervais; 7. Storyboarding and epic Lynn S. Fotheringham and Matt Brooker; 8. Epic in the round Caroline Vout; 9. 'Split-screen' visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii Katharina Lorenz; 10. Epic visions on the Tabulae Iliacae Michael Squire.
About the author
Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Statius and Epic Games (2005) as well as a monograph closely related to this volume, The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (Cambridge, 2013). Current and future projects include a history of the Argonautic myth, an exploration of the life and works of Ugolino Verino, and an edited volume on children's literature and classics.Caroline Vout is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and the Society of Antiquaries. Her recent publications include Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (2007), The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City (2012) and Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome (2013). In 2008 she was awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, and in 2006 she curated the sculpture-exhibition, 'Antinous: the Face of the Antique', at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. She is also an editor of the Cambridge Classical Journal and Perspective, and is the current Chair of the Criticos Prize.
Summary
This book explores visual readings and receptions of ancient epic. It provides a new perspective for readers of epic, from Homer and Virgil onwards, on the workings of the genre and its significance in ancient and modern art and in theatre, opera and film.
