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Flavian Epic Interactions.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Invida fata piis? Exploring the significance of Silius' divergence from the night raids of Virgil and StatiusThe Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2; Beginning at the end. Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes; Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres. Funeral rites in Silius and Statius; 'Well stored with subtle wiles'. Pyrene, Psamathe and the Flavian art of interaction; Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality; Flaminius' failure? Intertextual characterization in Silius Italicus and Statius; Bibliography; Index of names and subjects.