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Roman Eyes
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In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was
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Authors: Helen Lovatt
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.
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Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the gr
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Authors: Shadi Bartsch
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a pa