TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stacie Raucci
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453907856
TI  - Elegiac Eyes
T2  - Vision in Roman Love Elegy
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0785-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051040
N2  - 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.
KW  - Roman elegy, Roman poetry, vision, ancient Rome, Propertius, Ovid, Tibullus, funeral, body, spectacle, triumph
LA  - English
ER  -