Intermediality in Latin epic – en video quaecumque audita

‘Unbounded Views’: Incomplete Ekphrasis and the Visual Imagination in Virgil

“…; Putnam (1998), 11f. ; Dinter (2013), 122-24. I do not venture to say to what extent Virgil or other ancients regarded the description of artifacts in poetry (ekphraseis on the model of Achilles’ shield) as distinct from the rhetorical figure, but see Squire (2013), 157-63, for a lucid review of the issue.…”

“…15.See, inter al. , Heffernan (1993), 4-20, who discusses ‘representative friction’, the sense, engendered by ekphrasis, that a static image must differ essentially from its description; also Barchiesi (1997), 278, on Virgilian ekphrasis: ‘The textual medium explores the limits of visual communication as an indirect way of testing its own material limitations.’ Ekphrasis naturally prompts comparisons of visual and verbal representation: see Laird (1996) and Fowler (1991), who stresses the fragility of the supposed distinctions between verbal and visual art—what Mitchell (1994), 154f., calls ‘ekphrastic fear’; also Dinter (2013). …”

“…and he alludes in a somewhat vague way to an extended pax Augustana (791-805). The passage certainly may be discussed under the rubric of the ekphrastic: see Johnson (1976), 107-11; Leach (1999); Farrell (2012), 290-94; Dinter (2013), 129f.…”