Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self

‘Unbounded Views’: Incomplete Ekphrasis and the Visual Imagination in Virgil

“…6.2.29-33, where Quintilian praises Virgil's mastery of uisiones (or phantasiai , in Greek) so as to represent the ‘images of absent things’ ( imagines rerum absentium ) in such a way that they seem present to our eyes. On which passage see Syed (2005), 26-28, and Webb (2009), 94-97.…”

“…53.Important discussions of vision (or the gaze) and spectacle in the Aeneid include Syed (2005), chs. 3-4; Smith (2005); and Reed (2007).…”

“…Pöschl (1962), 149f. ; Fitzgerald (1984); Casali (1995-96); Bartsch (1998); Erdman (1998); Putnam (1998), 75-96; Staley (2001-02); Syed (2005), 79-86.…”

“…100.Cf. Lyne (1987), 208f., and Syed (2005), 70. See also Feeney (1991), 181, on the degrees of knowledge available to human characters in the poem, from Dido's ‘ignorance of fate’ ( fati nescia , 1.299) to the better, though still incomplete, information made available to Aeneas.…”