Lucan and Flavian Epic /

Lucan and Flavian Epic / / Kyle Gervais, Randall Pogorzelski, and Sarah Graham-Shaughnessy.

Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all been the subject of a remarkable increase in scholarly attention and appreciation. Lucan and Flavian epic characterizes and historicizes that moment, sho...

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Superior document:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
VerfasserIn:
Gervais, Kyle ,
Graham-Shaughnessy, Sarah ,
Pogorzelski, Randall ,
TeilnehmendeR:
Graham-Shaughnessy, Sarah ,
Pogorzelski, Randall ,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Physical Description:1 online resource (131 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Lucan
  • 2.1 Lucan's Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Receptions
  • 2.2 Lucan in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • 2.3 Lucan's Intertextuality
  • 2.4 The Completeness of the Poem
  • 3 Valerius Flaccus
  • 3.1 The Text: Manuscript, Date, and Completion
  • 3.2 Intertextuality and Belatedness
  • 3.3 Intertextual Models: Virgil, Apollonius, and Others
  • 3.4 Mythological Characterization
  • 3.5 Current Trends and Future Directions
  • 4 Statius
  • 4.1 The Thebaid: the Statian Renaissance
  • 4.1.1 The Politics of the Thebaid: Optimists and Pessimists
  • 4.1.2 The Thebaid in the Ancient Canon
  • 4.2 The Thebaid: the Statian nouvelle vague
  • 4.2.1 Sociocultural and Intertextual Readings
  • 4.2.2 Reevaluating the Text and Transmission
  • 4.3 The Thebaid: Current Trends and Future Directions
  • 4.3.1 Commentaries
  • 4.3.2 Poetics and Politics
  • 4.3.3 Sociocultural Approaches
  • 4.3.4 Intertextuality
  • 4.3.5 Reception
  • 4.4 The Achilleid
  • 4.4.1 The Text of the Achilleid
  • 4.4.2 Gender and Genre in the Achilleid
  • 4.4.3 Future Directions
  • 5 Silius Italicus
  • 5.1 Exemplarity in the Punica
  • 5.2 Civil War in the Punica
  • 5.3 Intertextuality in the Punica
  • 5.4 Silius' Ancient and Early Modern Reception
  • 5.5 Silius in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • 5.6 Silius' Resistance to Redemption
  • 5.7 The Future of the Punica
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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