Flavian Epic Interactions

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This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius, 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. The interactions of these poems with each other and their contemporary context are explored by over 20 experts and emerging scholars. Together they offer new perspectives to the still increasing readership of Flavian epic poetry.

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Full title :Flavian Epic Interactions.

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):De Gruyter
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Index of epic passages.

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Description:1 online resource (460 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783110314304, 3110314304, 9783110314274, 3110314274
DOI:10.1515/9783110314304
oclc:ocn858762073
LC Classification:PA6054 .F57 2013
Dewey Decimal:873.0109

Preface and acknowledgements; Flavian epic interactions; Part I Flavian Epic Politics; The Flavian Punica?; Imperial encomia in Flavian epic; Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry. Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (1.7-21) and Statius' Thebaid (1.17-33); Praise in Flavian epic; Critical interactions. Constructing heroic models and imperial ideology in Flavian epic; Looking for the Giants. Mythological imagery and discourse on power in Flavian epic; Part II Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques; Flavian epic and the sublime; Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem. Declamation and Flavian epic.

Teichoskopia and katabasis. The poetics of spectatorship in Flavian epicSlavery in Flavian epic; The contradictions of Valerius' and Statius' Jupiter. Power and weakness of the supreme god in the epic and tragic tradition; Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic. Valerius Flaccus and Statius; Does mass matter? The epic catalogue of troops as narrative and metapoetic device; Part III Flavian Epic Intertextuality; Traces of the Argo. Statius' Achilleid 1 and Valerius' Argonautica 1-2; Silius versus Valerius. Orpheus in the Punica and the Argonautica.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Epic poetry, Latin Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criti… Poésie épique latine -- Histoire et cri… POETRY -- Epic Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Statius, P. Papinius, (Publius Papinius) Valerius Flaccus, Gaius