Virgil's Epic Designs Ekphrasis in the Aeneid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/1998
Putnam offers insightful analyses of thc 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; thc fifty. daughters of Danaus, ordered by their father to kill their husbands on their wedding night; and Virgil's original talc 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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