Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus /

Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus / / edited by Mark Heerink and Gesine Manuwald.

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Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual transmissi...

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Superior document:Brill's Companions in Classical Studies,
TeilnehmendeR:
Heerink, Mark,
Manuwald, Gesine,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions in classical studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (452 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introduction / Mark Heerink and Gesine Manuwald
  • 2 Utere bono tuo feliciter: The Textual Transmission and Manuscript History of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / P. Ruth Taylor-Briggs
  • 3 Poet and Readers: Reflections on the Verbal and Narrative Art of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Michael Barich
  • 4 Authorial Poetics in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Alain Deremetz
  • 5 Valerius Flaccus, Virgil and the Poetics of Ekphrasis / Mark Heerink
  • 6 Myth and Mythopoesis in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / James J. Clauss
  • 7 War and Love in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Marco Fucecchi
  • 8 Philosophical Ideas in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Attila Ferenczi
  • 9 Romanas veluti saevissima cum legiones Tisiphone regesque movet: Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and the Flavian Era / Neil W. Bernstein
  • 10 A Hero with a Sandal and a Buskin: The Figure of Jason in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Cristiano Castelletti
  • 11 Medea: From Epic to Tragedy / Peter J. Davis
  • 12 Teamwork, Leadership and Group Dynamics in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Helen Lovatt
  • 13 My Family and Other Enemies: Argonautic Antagonists and Valerian Villains / Robert Cowan
  • 14 Virgilian Prophecy and the Reign of Jupiter in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Randall T. Ganiban
  • 15 Ovid and Valerius Flaccus / Alison Keith
  • 16 Lucan and Valerius Flaccus: Rerouting the Vessel of Epic Song / Tim Stover
  • 17 Valerius Flaccus and Seneca’s Tragedies / Emma Buckley
  • 18 The Epics of Statius and Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Ruth Parkes
  • 19 Valerius Flaccus in Silius Italicus / Antony Augoustakis
  • 20 Interpres operis alieni? Giovan Battista Pio’s Continuation of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Andrew Zissos
  • Bibliography
  • Abstracts of Chapters
  • Index of Passages
  • General Index.

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