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Ekphrasis
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:25:57

Ekphrasis (from the Greek έκ and φρασις) is a rhetorical device defined as the written description of a work of art, either real or imagined. Since classical...

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Suetonius
Kamis, 2026-08-20 01:33:43

Bill. "The Emperor's No Clothes: Suetonius and the Dynamics of Corporeal Ecphrasis." Classical Antiquity, vol. 31, no. 2, 2012, pp. 315–348. Lounsbury, Richard...

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John Phokas
Kamis, 2025-11-06 06:13:42

John Phokas (Byzantine Greek: Ἰωάννης Φωκᾶς, romanized: Iōánnēs Phōkâs, IPA: [i.oˈan.nis foˈkas]) or Phocas (Medieval Latin: Johannes Phocas, IPA: [joˈan...

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Catullus 64
Senin, 2024-07-01 02:48:24

never explicitly states that Theseus even looked at Ariadne. Told through ecphrasis, or the depiction of events on inanimate objects, the bulk of the poem...

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Popular science
Jumat, 2026-08-07 03:51:30

Trotha, Caroline Y. (eds.). Genealogy of Popular Science: From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality. Verlag. doi:10.1515/9783839448359. ISBN 9783839448359...

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Leucippe and Clitophon
Jumat, 2026-06-19 21:58:31

The subject of the rape of Europa (from the Ecphrasis in Book I, 1, 3–13) was closely connected with Sidon, and is represented on Sidonian coins....

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Epyllion
Selasa, 2026-06-23 03:15:37

sleeping Ariadne's abandonment by Theseus is the topic of an elaborate ecphrasis in Catullus 64, the most famous extant epyllion (Roman copy of a 2nd-century...

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Drag (entertainment)
Kamis, 2026-08-13 08:20:19

painting. Dufallo, Basil (2013). The Captor's Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis. Oxford University Press. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-0-19-973587-7. Menaechmus...

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Effect of reality
Senin, 2026-06-08 15:37:20

finality of language" present in the use of the rhetorical device of ecphrasis in "Alexandrian neo-rhetoric of the second century". Barthes also showed...

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Catalogue of Women
Jumat, 2026-08-21 20:51:32

Boyd, B.W. (1992), "Virgil's Camilla and the Traditions of Catalogue and Ecphrasis (Aeneid 7.803–17)", American Journal of Philology, 113 (2): 213–34, doi:10...

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Camilla (mythology)
Selasa, 2025-10-07 00:26:09

Weiden (1992). "Virgil's Camilla and the Traditions of Catalogue and Ecphrasis (Aeneid 7.803-17)". The American Journal of Philology. 113 (2): 213–234...

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Octavianus (poet)
Rabu, 2025-05-28 23:02:30

and his youth at 16, are mentioned therein. The most famous poem is an ecphrasis of an imaginary portrait of the poet's beloved. Allen, Philip Schuler;...

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Michael Squire
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:15:15

ornament; classical traditions and the legacies of Greek and Roman art; ecphrasis and visual-verbal relations; materialities of text; disciplinary histories...

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Pythian 1
Kamis, 2026-08-20 13:34:37

which it then goes on to describe. The eruption constitutes an elaborate ecphrasis and has been considered by critics to be central to the poem's interpretation...

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Sidonius Apollinaris
Kamis, 2026-07-02 10:38:17

arts. Other poems have different subjects. For example, Carmen 22 is an ecphrasis of a painting of the Third Mithridatic War on the wall of the villa of...

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Science book
Kamis, 2026-07-30 10:18:59

and Protreptical Practice. Genealogy of Popular Science From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality. p. 26. doi:10.1515/9783839448359. Boissoneault, Lorraine...

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Luis Espinosa Alcalá
Senin, 2026-06-01 18:55:36

considered the "Mayab's Musical Landscaper" due to his delicate use of ecphrasis to describe, for example, how one walks over a red carpet of Flamboyant...

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Magdalen in the Desert
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 05:11:05

holds the first place among the small Correggios." He gives the following ecphrasis: In a solitary spot, but attractive with its verdure and rocks, on a grassy...

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Idyll I
Jumat, 2026-05-15 08:32:58

Death. Thyrsis comes from Sicily, which is the scene of his song. The ecphrasis of the cup inspired drawings by John Flaxman from which four silver-gilt...

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Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas
Jumat, 2026-04-24 11:02:18

latín (1595) Edition and commentary of Auli Persii Flacci Saturæ sex: cvm ecphrasi et scholiis Franc. Sanctij Brocen. Salmanticæ: apud Didacum à Cussio, 1599...

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Bibliotheca Teubneriana
Rabu, 2026-07-29 22:50:41

Rhodius; Theodorus Paphlago (2021). De Stefani, Cl.; Strano, G. (eds.). Ecphrasis Ecclesiae Sanctorum Apostolorum. Carmina scoptica. BT 2046. Berlin – New...

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Mount of Temptation
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 17:54:39

temptations is reversed. A separate tradition recorded in John Phocas's Ecphrasis, a 12th-century pilgrimage report, was that one of the tells at the base...

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Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:42:18

short dialogue between two brothers (Corydon and Ornytus), framing an ecphrasis of a poem purportedly written by the god Faunus which takes up 55 of the...

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