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020			_a9781139060080 (ebook)
020			_z9781107016118 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPA3106 _b.L68 2013
082	0	0	_a881.009 _223
100	1		_aLovatt, Helen, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Epic Gaze : _bVision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic / _cHelen Lovatt.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (424 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the gods above and the women on the sidelines. This stimulating, ambitious study investigates the theme of vision in Greek and Latin epic from Homer to Nonnus, bringing the edges of epic into dialogue with celebrated moments (the visual confrontation of Hector and Achilles, the failure of Turnus' gaze), revealing epic as massive assertion of authority and fractured representation. Helen Lovatt demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. She discusses mortals appropriating the divine gaze, prophets as both penetrative viewers and rape victims, explores the divine authority of epic ecphrasis, and exposes the way that heroic bodies are fragmented and fetishised.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107016118
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139060080
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37153 _d37153