Elegiac Eyes: Vision in Roman Love Elegy
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.
- ISBN: 978-1-4539-0785-6
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-0785-6
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