TY - BOOK ID - 61140746 TI - The captor's image PY - 2013 SN - 0199344175 0199735875 0199332452 9780199344178 9780199332458 9781299600928 1299600921 9780199735877 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Latin literature KW - Ekphrasis. KW - Greek literature KW - Authors, Latin. KW - Art, Greek KW - Civilization, Greco-Roman. KW - Greco-Roman civilization KW - Civilization, Classical KW - Greek art KW - Art, Aegean KW - Classical antiquities KW - Art, Greco-Bactrian KW - Authors, Roman KW - Latin authors KW - Roman authors KW - Balkan literature KW - Byzantine literature KW - Classical literature KW - Classical philology KW - Greek philology KW - Ecphrasis KW - Art in literature KW - Description (Rhetoric) KW - History and criticism. KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61140746 AB - 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. ER -