Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice

Contents: Preface Introduction The contexts of ekphrasis Learning ekphrasis: the progymnasmata The subjects of ekphrasis Enargeia making absent things present Phantasia memory, imagination and the gallery of the mind Ekphrasis and the art of persuasion The poetics of ekphrasis: fiction, illusion and meta-ekphrasis Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index.