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The first book-length treatment of artistic ecphrasis at Rome, 'The Captor's Image' resituates a major literary trope deep within its hybrid cultural context, and argues for ecphrasis as a cultural practice through which the Romans sought, over some four hundred years of their history, to redefine Romanness both with and against Greekness.

Latin literature --- Ekphrasis. --- Greek literature --- Authors, Latin. --- Art, Greek --- Civilization, Greco-Roman. --- Greco-Roman civilization --- Civilization, Classical --- Greek art --- Art, Aegean --- Classical antiquities --- Art, Greco-Bactrian --- Authors, Roman --- Latin authors --- Roman authors --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Ecphrasis --- Art in literature --- Description (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism. --- Influence.