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Myth and Legend Reimagined: Charlotte Higgins and Dr Amy Jeffs in conversation
Intelligence Squared
The Ecphrasis of the Myths of Homer's Iliad
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i chose to organize my myths with this very tight structure that was, as you says, ecphrasus. Ecphrasus is a sort of greek word that relates to offering narrative through the description of a physical object. It's a wonderful and thrilling, i think, ancient trope. And there's a particularly apposite one in a poem by catalus, cheerfully called catollas 64. We know a lot of the works that we're using don't really have names - they are kind of called codas for be you kno subsuchon.
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