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Technical ekphrasis in Greek and Roman science and literature :

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1139924842

(Number (ISBN

1316532682

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1316533646

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9781139924849

(Number (ISBN

9781316532683

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9781316533642

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1107077303

Erroneous ISBN

9781107077300

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Technical ekphrasis in Greek and Roman science and literature :

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[Book]

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the written machine between Alexandria and Rome /

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Courtney Roby.

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New York :

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Cambridge University Press,

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[2016]

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction: the written machine -- Genres: texts and artifacts -- Cultural contexts -- Ekphrastic complex -- Diagram and artifact -- Description and instruction -- Knowledge and artifact -- Conclusion: the limits of description.

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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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Technical ekphrasis in Greek and Roman science and literature

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9781107077300

Ekphrasis.

Literature and science-- Greece.

Literature and science-- Rome.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Science-- Greece-- History-- To 1500.

Science-- Rome-- History-- To 1500.

Ekphrasis.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Composition & Creative Writing.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Rhetoric.

Literature and science.

PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Ancient & Classical.

REFERENCE-- Writing Skills.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Science.

Greece.

Rome (Empire)

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LAN-- 005000

LAN-- 015000

REF-- 026000

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Roby, Courtney,1978-

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20200822165445.0

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