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Technical Ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: The Written Machine Between Alexandria and Rome
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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781107077300 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 29, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: 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.

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