Flavian Epic Interactions /

Flavian Epic Interactions / / ed. by Gesine Manuwald, Astrid Voigt.

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This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four epic poems from the same period (Argonautica; Thebaid, Achilleid; Punica). The interactions of these...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Augoustakis, Antony,
Bernstein, Neil W.,
Bessone, Federica,
Chaudhuri, Pramit,
Criado, Cecilia,
Dinter, Martin T.,
Fucecchi, Marco,
Galli, Daniela,
Gibson, Bruce,
Hardie, Philip,
Harrison, Stephen,
Heerink, Mark,
Hulls, Jean-Michel,
Keur, Michiel van der,
Kozák, Dániel,
Littlewood, Joy,
Manuwald, Gesine,
Marks, Raymond,
Penwill, John,
Reitz, Christiane,
Soerink, Jörn,
Voigt, Astrid,
Walter, Anke,
Wilson, Marcus,
HerausgeberIn:
Manuwald, Gesine,
Voigt, Astrid,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Flavian epic interactions
  • Part I. Flavian Epic Politics
  • The Flavian Punica?
  • Imperial encomia in Flavian epic
  • Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry
  • Praise in Flavian epic
  • Critical interactions
  • Looking for the Giants
  • Part II. Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
  • Flavian epic and the sublime
  • Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem
  • Teichoskopia and katabasis
  • Slavery in Flavian epic
  • The contradictions of Valerius’ and Statius’ Jupiter
  • Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic
  • Does mass matter?
  • Part III. Flavian Epic Intertextuality
  • Traces of the Argo
  • Silius versus Valerius
  • invida fata piis?
  • The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2
  • Beginning at the end
  • Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres
  • ‘Well stored with subtle wiles’
  • Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality
  • Flaminius’ failure?
  • Bibliography
  • Index of names and subjects
  • Index of epic passages

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