The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's "Aeneid"
Language: English
Published by Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005, 2006
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8vo, card covers, xvi, 253pp. First edition, per the copyright page, but digitally produced, per the slug at the last leaf. VG: a clean, bright and sound coy but with a small nick to the laminate at the spine (see images).
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- Title
- The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's "Aeneid"
- Author
- Smith, Riggs Alden
- Publisher
- Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0292726228
- ISBN 13
- 9780292726222
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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- Literature
One of the masterpieces of Latin and, indeed, world literature, Virgil's Aeneid was written during the Augustan "renaissance" of architecture, art, and literature that redefined the Roman world in the early years of the empire. This period was marked by a transition from the use of rhetoric as a means of public persuasion to the use of images to display imperial power. Taking a fresh approach to Virgil's epic poem, Riggs Alden Smith argues that the Aeneid fundamentally participates in the Augustan shift from rhetoric to imagery because it gives primacy to vision over speech as the principal means of gathering and conveying information as it recounts the heroic adventures of Aeneas, the legendary founder of Rome.
Working from the theories of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Smith characterizes Aeneas as a voyant-visible, a person who both sees and is seen and who approaches the world through the faculty of vision. Engaging in close readings of key episodes throughout the poem, Smith shows how Aeneas repeatedly acts on what he sees rather than what he hears. Smith views Aeneas' final act of slaying Turnus, a character associated with the power of oratory, as the victory of vision over rhetoric, a triumph that reflects the ascendancy of visual symbols within Augustan society. Smith's new interpretation of the predominance of vision in the Aeneid makes it plain that Virgil's epic contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of Imperial Rome.
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About the Author
Riggs Alden Smith is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University.
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