Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature / / ed. by Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou.
This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closure. It reveals that ritual can bring but also can thwart closure by alluding to new beginnings. A ritual could be a perfect kind of ending b...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature
- Ritual Closure and Transcendence: Mobilising Ritual Theory for Flavian Epic
- Religious and Social Rituals as Motifs of Closure in Martial’s Epigrams
- Closural Poetics in Martial, Epigrams 10
- Ritual and the Impossibility of Song in Statius’ Siluae 5
- Sacrifice, Death, and Closure in Valerius’ Argonautica Book 1
- Mansuri Compos Decoris? Scipio’s Reditus and Exile in Punica 17
- Silius Italicus’ False Rituals, Politics and Poetics: Mock Funerals and Triumphs as Closural Markers in the Punica
- Burning up, Melting down, Collapsing in: Fire Imagery, Narrative Articulation, Funerals, and the Incestuous Poetics of Statius’ Thebaid
- Narrative and Psychological Closure through Ritual at Cyzicus and Circe’s Island
- Compage soluta: Collapsing Universe and the Boundaries of Epic Poetry (Lucan, Silius, Statius and Claudian’s De raptu)
- Epilogue
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Thematic Index
- Index of Sources