Flavian poetry / / edited by Ruurd R. Nauta, Harm-Jan van Dam and Johannes J.L. Smolenaars.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne. Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nauta, Ruurd R.,; Dam, Harm-Jan van, 1948-; Smolenaars, Johannes Jacobus Louis,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2006.; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: International conference proceedings, August 2003, University of Groningen.

The reign of the Flavian emperors (69-96) saw the production of a large and varied body of Latin poetry: the epics of Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus and Statius, the Silvae of the same Statius, and the Epigrams of Martial. This poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is now increasingly appreciated for the daring originality of its responses both to the Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. In the summer of 2003, the first-ever international conference on Flavian poetry, was held at Groningen, The Netherlands, bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, North America and Australasia. This volume offers a selection of the papers delivered on that occasion.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ruurd R. Nauta , Harm-Jan van Dam and Johannes J.L. Smolenaars -- QUINTILIAN AND THE PERCEPTION OF THE SYSTEM OF POETIC GENRES IN THE FLAVIAN AGE / Mario Citroni -- THE RECUSATIO IN FLAVIAN POETRY / Ruurd R. Nauta -- LUXURY AND LOVE: THE ENCOMIUM AS AESTHETICISATION OF POWER IN FLAVIAN POETRY / Gianpiero Rosati -- THE FEMALE GAZE IN FLAVIAN EPIC: LOOKING OUT FROM THE WALLS IN VALERIUS FLACCUS AND STATIUS / Helen Lovatt -- SAILING AND SEA-STORM IN VALERIUS FLACCUS (ARGONAUTICA 1.574–642): THE RHETORIC OF INUNDATION / Andrew Zissos -- SILIUS ITALICUS AND THE ROMAN SUBLIME / Piet H. Schrijvers -- ROME THEN AND NOW: LINKING THE SAGUNTUM AND CANNAE EPISODES IN SILIUS ITALICUS’ PUNICA / William J. Dominik -- QUEEN DIRCE AND THE SPARTOI: WANDERING THROUGH STATIUS’ THEBAN PAST AND THE THEBAID’S EARLY PRINTED EDITIONS / Valéry Berlincourt -- THE PERILS OF PROPHECY: STATIUS’ AMPHIARAUS AND HIS LITERARY ANTECEDENTS / Elaine Fantham -- THE SILVAE AND EPIC / Bruce Gibson -- MULTIPLE IMITATION OF EPIC MODELS IN THE SILVAE / Harm-Jan van Dam -- STATIUS’ OVIDIAN POETICS AND THE TREE OF ATEDIUS MELIOR (SILVAE 2.3) / Philip Hardie -- IDEOLOGY AND POETICS ALONG THE VIA DOMITIANA: STATIUS SILVAE 4.3 / Johannes J.L. Smolenaars -- SATIRICAL ELEMENTS IN STATIUS’ SILVAE: A LITERARY AND SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH / Gabriel Laguna Mariscal -- IDENTITY AND IRONY. MARTIAL’S TENTH BOOK, HORACE, AND THE TRADITION OF ROMAN SATIRE / Elena Merli -- THE UNITY OF MARTIAL’S EPIGRAMS / Lindsay C. Watson -- CONTEXTUALISING MARTIAL’S METRES / Patricia Watson -- INVALUABLE COLLECTIONS: THE ILLUSION OF POETIC PRESENCE IN MARTIAL’S XENIA AND APOPHORETA / Sarah Culpepper Stroup -- MARTIAL AND THE WRITER CANIUS RUFUS / Sven Lorenz -- IDENTIFIED QUOTATIONS AND LITERARY MODELS: THE EXAMPLE OF MARTIAL 2.41 / Craig Williams -- MARTIAL’S MODES OF MOURNING. SEPULCHRAL EPITAPHS IN THE EPIGRAMS / Christer Henriksén -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / Ruurd R. Nauta , Harm-Jan van Dam and Johannes J.L. Smolenaars -- INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED / Ruurd R. Nauta , Harm-Jan van Dam and Johannes J.L. Smolenaars -- GENERAL INDEX / Ruurd R. Nauta , Harm-Jan van Dam and Johannes J.L. Smolenaars -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers.