February 8

Topic: Ecphrasis

Readings:

• Aeneid 6.1-155
• Don Fowler, "Deviant focalisation in Virgil's Aeneid," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 36 (1990) 42-63.
• Don Fowler, "Narrate and describe: The problem of ecphrasis," Journal of Roman Studies 81 (1991) 25-35.
• John Elsner, "Cult and Sculpture: Sacrifice in the Ara Pacis Augusti, " Journal of Roman Studies 81 (1991) 50-61.

Michael C. J. Putnam, "Daedalus' Sculptures," in Vergil's Epic Designs: Ecphrasis in the Aeneid (New Haven 1998), ch. 3, pp. 75-96.