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Elegiac Eyes

Vision in Roman Love Elegy

by Stacie Raucci (Author)
©2011 Monographs X, 173 Pages
Series: Lang Classical Studies, Volume 17

Summary

Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes of viewing and locates its analysis in close textual readings of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The paradoxical nature of the Roman eyes, which according to contemporary optical theories were able to penetrate and be penetrated, as well as the complex role of vision in society, provided the elegists with a productive canvas for their poems. By locating the elegists’ visual games within their contemporary context, Elegiac Eyes demonstrates how the elegists were manipulating notions that were specifically Roman and familiar to their readership.

Details

Pages
X, 173
Publication Year
2011
ISBN (PDF)
9781453907856
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433113154
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0785-6
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (February)
Keywords
Roman elegy Roman poetry vision ancient Rome Propertius Ovid Tibullus funeral body spectacle triumph
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. X, 173 pp.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Stacie Raucci (Author)

Stacie Raucci is Assistant Professor of Classics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her BA in Latin from Wellesley College and her PhD in classical languages and literatures from the University of Chicago.

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