The Rhetoric of Space
Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3939845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Kuttner (corresponding author), Eleanor Winsor Leach |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 278 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1088801 |
| OpenAlex | W2061271226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love for the organization of space that can be seen as clearly in their pictorial arts as in their arrangement of public and private architecture. In this interdisciplinary work Eleanor Leach links the depiction of landscape in Roman literature and in Roman painting during a formative period of Roman art. In relating the two fields, she focuses on the response of audiences, particularly the way in which perceptions shaped by one of the arts are transferred to the other.The persuasive rhetorical orientation of much Roman art assigns the spectator a vital role. To study that role, Leach brings contemporary semiotic methodology to bear on ancient rhetorical theory. First she contrasts landscapes that fulfill a narrative function, such as those in the Odyssey Frieze and Vergil's Aeneid, with cartographic landscapes used for informational purposes. She then considers the two Augustan genres of sacral-idyllic and architectural landscape. Finally she discusses the reader's contribution to the understanding of mythological narrative painting, and, conversely, the way in which certain Roman authors incorporate visual imagery into their mythological allusions and narratives to control the reader's point of view
Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Rhetoric · Space (punctuation) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Ovid and Hesiod
Walking in Roman Culture
Homer's Trojan Theater
Caesar in Gaul and Rome
The Roman second century gate at Perge and its literary associations
From Statue to Story
La función de las imágenes en la reflexión filosófica de Cicerón
Narrate and Describe
Seneca's Scientific Fictions
Unfinished portrait heads’ on later Roman sarcophagi
Ancient Roman Literary Gardens
Horace, Odes 3.22, and the Life of Meaning
Ecphrasis, Interpretation, and Audience in Aeneid 1 and Odyssey 8
Visualizing the Shield of Achilles
Martial and the City of Rome
The Shield of Achilles
Spatial Dimensions in Roman Wall Painting and the Interplay of Enclosing and Enclosed Space
Inconsistency in Roman Epic
Temple Building, Primus Language, and the Proem to Virgil’s Third Georgic
The View From the Mountain ( Oroskopia ) in Greek and Latin Literature
Launching into History
Contemporary perspectives on luxury building in second-century BC Rome
Ars and the Man
Walking with Odysseus
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |