Flavian poetry and its Greek past / / edited by Antony Augoustakis.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 366
• TeilnehmendeR: Augoustakis, Antony.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 366.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (475 pages).

Table of Contents

Between Greece and Italy: Flavian poetry and its traditions / Antony Augoustakis -- Flavian literature and Greek intertexts -- Quis magna tuenti somnus? : scenes of sleeplessness (and intertextuality) in Flavian poetry / Arianna Sacerdoti -- Valerius Flaccus -- When the Argo met the Argo: poetic destruction in Valerius' Argonautica / Darcy Krasne -- Aratus and the Aratean tradition in Valerius' Argonautica / Cristiano Castelletti -- Collective speech and silence in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius / Simone Finkmann -- Conflating funerals: the deaths of Idmon and Tiphys in Valerius' Argonautica / Marco van der Schuur -- War and the Apollonian model in Valerius' Argonautica / Carey Seal -- Dionysius Scytobrachion's Argonautica and Valerius / Daniela Galli -- Valerius' Argonautica as an ideological epic of the Flavian era / Irene Mitousi -- Statius -- Tragic/epic: Statius' Thebaid and Euripides' Hypsipyle / Jorn Soerink -- Greek author, Greek past: Statius, Athens, and the tragic self / Jean-Michel Hulls -- Polis, court, empire: Greek culture, Roman society, and the system of genres in Statius' poetry / Federica Bessone -- Like purple on ivory: a Homeric simile in Statius' Achilleid / Pavlos Sfyroeras -- Silius italicus -- Homeric receptions in Flavian epic: intertextual characterization in Punica 7 / Evangelos Karakasis -- Loyalty and the lyre: constructions of fides in Hannibal's Capuan banquets / R. Joy Littlewood -- Meruit deus esse uideri: Silius' Homer in Homer's Punica 13 / Michiel van der Keur -- The philosophy of power: Greek literary tradition and Silius' On kingship / Marco Fucecchi -- Martial -- 'Graece numquid' ait 'poeta nescis?' : Martial and the Greek epigrammatic tradition / Margot Neger -- Fingering Cestos: Martial's Catullus' Callimachus / Robert Cowan -- Inheriting speech: talking books come to Flavian Rome / Ana Maria Loio.