Vision in Virgil
| Dates: | 18 April 2013 |
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| Times: | 16:55 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Arts, Histories and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Fiachra MacGorain |
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Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar
ABSTRACT
This discussion of vision in the Aeneid positions itself in relation to studies of visual culture, the art-text interface, and the study of performance, before focussing on how Virgil draws on philosophical theories of optics to express the dynamics of vision in his own narrative. Virgil looks back to his Homeric model through philosophical lenses, chief among which is the theory of intromission as propounded by the atomists, and articulated by Lucretius in On the nature of the universe, book 4. I look at three different kinds of gaze in the epic, involving vision and knowledge, vision and power, and vision and erotic desire.
Speaker
Fiachra MacGorain
Organisation: University College London
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Samuel Alexander Building
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