A few words about epic grotesque anatomy. The ancient and
medieval epics and the roman de chevalerie did not ignore the grotesque
concept of the body. Images of dismemberment and detailed
anatomic descriptions of wounds and deaths became de rigueur in
these epics influenced by Homer and Virgil (and later writers like Ovid).
Ronsard writes in his
preface to La Franciade, "If you wish a soldier or an officer to die
on the battlefield, he must be smitten at the most sensitive part of
his body and you must be a good anatomist to draw such a picture."
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