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Embraces in Aeneid 8
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dc.contributor.author | Gramps, Adrian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-17T12:30:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-17T12:30:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-07-15 | |
dc.identifier | 280978977 | |
dc.identifier | 9d7b911e-2337-47c0-b64a-d0fcfb6e9a5f | |
dc.identifier | 85136464567 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gramps , A 2022 , ' Embraces in Aeneid 8 ' , Mnemosyne , vol. Advance Articles . https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10123 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0026-7074 | |
dc.identifier.other | Jisc: 544369 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-1277-3647/work/117997061 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/26423 | |
dc.description.abstract | Venus and Vulcan, Venus and Aeneas, Pallas and Aeneas, Aeneas and Evander, Evander and Pallas: all of these pairs are seen embracing one another in Aeneid 8. Alongside these emotive scenes of embrace, the book is peppered with embrace-related vocabulary, imagery, and metaphor, often in surprising contexts. This article weaves together these embraces in Aeneid 8 in relation to the thematics of the book as a whole. It is proposed that, when read together, the embraces in Aeneid 8 tell a story about the possibilities of knowledge in relation to the senses. Vision is the supreme sense-modality of truth in epic, as embodied in the shield of Aeneas; and yet, in book 8, embrace emerges as a way of knowing that runs counter to optical discourses of knowledge. This leads to an exploratory reconsideration of hermeneutic principles in light of Aeneas’ much-puzzled-over response to the shield. | |
dc.format.extent | 22 | |
dc.format.extent | 352009 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Mnemosyne | en |
dc.subject | Vergil | en |
dc.subject | Aeneid | en |
dc.subject | Touch | en |
dc.subject | Ecphrasis | en |
dc.subject | Epistemology | en |
dc.subject | PA Classical philology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | AC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PA | en |
dc.title | Embraces in Aeneid 8 | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Classics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1163/1568525x-bja10123 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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