Courtney Roby: 1 book
Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature
The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Ekphrasis is familiar as a rhetorical tool for inducing enargeia, the vivid sense that a reader or listener is actually in the presence of the objects described. This book focuses on the ekphrastic techniques used in ancient Greek and Roman literature to describe technological artifacts. Since the...
