Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid by Michael C. J. Putnam

Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid

Michael C. J. Putnam

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This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil's final masterpiece, the Aeneid. Virgil uses ekphrasis--a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describ...

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