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Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome
Courtney Roby
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Description for Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome
hardcover. Analyzes the rhetorical and visual strategies used in technical texts and non-technical literature to describe technological artifacts. Num Pages: 354 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 literary discourse on technology extended beyond technical texts, this book explores 'technical ekphrasis' in a wide range of genres, including history, poetry, and philosophy as well as mechanical, scientific, and mathematical works. Technical authors like Philo of Byzantium, Vitruvius, Hero of Alexandria, and Claudius Ptolemy are put into dialogue with close contemporaries in ... Read more
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 literary discourse on technology extended beyond technical texts, this book explores 'technical ekphrasis' in a wide range of genres, including history, poetry, and philosophy as well as mechanical, scientific, and mathematical works. Technical authors like Philo of Byzantium, Vitruvius, Hero of Alexandria, and Claudius Ptolemy are put into dialogue with close contemporaries in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
354
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107077300
SKU
V9781107077300
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About Courtney Roby
Courtney Roby is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Cornell University. Her research interests include the literary techniques used in scientific and technical texts from the ancient Mediterranean, the interaction of verbal and visual elements in those texts, and the role of the imagination in ancient scientific discourse.
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