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The Emperor's No Clothes: Suetonius and the Dynamics of Corporeal Ecphrasis
Classical Antiquity 31 (2):315-348 (2012)
Abstract
This paper studies Suetonius's depiction of the appearance of Emperors through what I call Bodily or Corporeal Ecphrasis. Suetonius's ecphrasis of the Emperor's body directs the readers' gaze over the corpus principis in a way that deconstructs the ontology of the princeps. I will show that Suetonius's construction of emperors' corpora includes an amalgamation of referents to heavenly and animal bodies that upsets a reader's ability to interpret these radically unique images through a purely human criterionLinks
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