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- Condition
- EAN
- 9781107077300
- UPC
- 9781107077300
- ISBN
- 9781107077300
- MPN
- N/A
- Book Title
- Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and
- Item Length
- 23.7 cm
- Subject Area
- Biographies & True Stories
- Publication Name
- Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Subject
- Engineering & Technology, History
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Item Weight
- 630 g
- Item Width
- 160 mm
- Number of Pages
- 334 Pages
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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 other genres, like Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Ovid, and Aelius Theon. The treatment of 'technical ekphrasis' here covers the techniques of description, the interaction of verbal and visual elements, the role of instructions, and the balance between describing the artifact's material qualities and the other bodies of knowledge it evokes.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107077300
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
334 Pages
Publication Name
Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biographies & True Stories
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
235 mm
Item Weight
630 g
Item Width
160 mm
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United Kingdom
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
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