Visuality, art and ecphrasis in the Monobiblos of Propertius

In this thesis I argue that the conflation of puella, art and godhead in Propertius 2.31 and the succeeding 2.32 strongly impacts upon the opening book, the Monobiblos, of the same author. The dynamic of vision, the poet's pictorial imagination, and the feminised, subservient stance of the eleg...

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Main Author: Freeman, Rod
Other Authors: Rees, Roger
Published: University of St Andrews 2013
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574845