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Abbreviations Introduction. Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis 1. Staging Ecphrasis in Early Latin Literature: From Naevius to Plautus and Terence 2. Becoming Ariadne: Marveling at Peleus's Coverlet with the Inconsistent Narrator of Catullus 64 3. The Challenge of Rustic Art: Ideals of Order in Vergil, Eclogues 3 and Horace, Satires 1.8 4. Describing the Divine: The Ecphrastic Temples of Vergil, Georgics 3.13-36 and Propertius, Elegies 2.31 5. Heroic Objects: Ecphrasis in the Aeneid and Metamorphoses 6. Sex, Satire, and the Hybrid Self in Petronian Ecphrasis 7. The Patron's Image: Philhellenism, Panegyric, and Ecphrasis in Statius and Martial Epilogue. Captives and Captors: Apuleius and Philostratus Bibliography Index

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