Teaching through images : : imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry / / edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• TeilnehmendeR: Clay, Jenny Strauss,; Vergados, Athanassios,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages)
• Notes: "The majority of the chapters collected in this volume began their life as papers delivered at a conference on imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry organised at the University of Heidelberg on 1st-3rd July 2016."
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004501584
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados.

"In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to elucidate and convey their didactic message. In this volume, which arose from an international conference held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016, we investigate such phenomena and explore how they make the unseen visible, the unheard audible, and the unknown comprehensible. By exploring didactic poets from Hesiod to pseudo-Oppian and from Vergil and Lucretius to Grattius and Ovid, the authors in this collective volume show how imagery can clarify and illuminate, but also complicate and even undermine or obfuscate the overt didactic message. The presence of a real or implied addressee invites our engagement and ultimately our scrutiny of language and meaning"--