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  Book Title: The
Captor's Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (Classical Culture and Society)	 	
  Book Author:
Basil Dufallo (Author) 
   Series: Classical
Culture and Society
   Hardcover: 304 pages
   Publisher: Oxford University Press (February 22,
2013)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0199735875
   ISBN-13: 978-0199735877
  
  Book Description
  An influential view of ecphrasis--the literary description of art
objects--chiefly treats it as a way for authors to write about their own texts without appearing to do so, and even
insist upon the aesthetic dominance of the literary text over the visual image. However, when considering its use in
ancient Roman literature, this interpretation proves insufficient. The Captor's Image argues for the need to see Roman
ecphrasis, with its prevalent focus on Hellenic images, as a site of subtle, ongoing competition between Greek and Roman
cultures. Through close readings of ecphrases in a wide range of Latin authors--from Plautus, Catullus, and Horace to
Vergil, Ovid, and Martial, among others--Dufallo contends that Roman ecphrasis reveals an ambivalent receptivity to
Greek culture, an attitude with implications for the shifting notions of Roman identity in the Republican and Imperial
periods. Individual chapters explore how the simple assumption of a self-asserting ecphrastic text is called into
question by comic performance, intentionally inconsistent narrative, satire, Greek religious iconography, the
contradictory associations of epic imagery, and the author's subjection to a patron. Visual material such as wall
painting, statuary, and drinkware vividly contextualizes the discussion. As the first book-length treatment of artistic
ecphrasis at Rome, The Captor's Image resituates a major literary trope within its hybrid cultural context while
advancing the idea of ecphrasis as a cultural practice through which the Romans sought to redefine their identity with,
and against, Greekness.
  
  Reviews
  "This is a magisterial work, informed by a profound knowledge of the source materials and a total command of the
contemporary scholarship relating to the subject. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
  
  "Using ecphrasis as a lens to focus on Rome's conflicted receptivity to Greek culture, Basil Dufallo's
subtle and meticulous study offers a searching examination of a trope to which Roman authors repeatedly turn as they
seek to articulate the cultural and ideological tensions in which they operate."--Duncan F.
Kennedy, University of Bristol
  
  "Professor Dufallo's brilliant survey of ecphrasis in Latin
authors from Naevius to Apuleius expands the conversation by moving from strictly literary readings to larger cultural
issues. With Greek art and literature always in the foreground, Dufallo directs us through a series of comparisons with,
and reflections of, the Hellenic past as a crucial formative influence on Rome's voyage of self-discovery. A major
achievement."--Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University
  
  "For a book
that ranges over such a wide span of literary texts (from Plautus to Apuleius and Philostratus), this monograph has a
remarkable intellectual coherence, and it repays sequential reading of the chapters." --Greece & Rome
  
  "[The Captor's Image] offers a series of savvy
readings... Dufallo's command of the material -- the literature itself, its long and complex series of bibliographies in
many languages, the theoretical frames in which ecphrasis has been received over the years -- is impressive." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  
  About the
Author
  Basil Dufallo is Associate Professor of Classics and
Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. 						

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