Ritual and religion in Flavian epic /

This edited collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period (69-96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' 'Argonautica', Silius Italicus' 'Punica', Statius' 'Thebaid', and the unfinished 'Achilleid'....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Augoustakis, Antony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, Ã2013.
Temas:
Classical philology.
Philology, Classical
Philologie ancienne.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis
  • Part I: Gods and humans
  • With (a) God on our side: ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian epic / Marco Fucecchi
  • Divine messages and human actions in the Argonautica / Gesine Manuwald
  • Competing visions: prophecy, spectacle, and theatricality in Flavian epic / Helen Lovatt
  • Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid / Anne Tuttle
  • 'Considering the image of Thebes': celestial and poetic auspicy in the Thebaid / Eleni Manolaraki
  • Malae preces and their articulation in the Thebaid / Ann Hubert
  • Hymnic features in the Statian epic and the Siluae / Bruce Gibson
  • Religion and power in the Thebaid / Federica Bessone
  • Part 2: Death and ritual
  • Chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns: the shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid / Ruth Parkes
  • Wasted water: the failure of purification in the Thebaid / Nicholas Dee
  • Patterns of darkness: chthonic illusion, gigantomachy, and sacrificial ritual in the Punica / R. Joy Littlewood
  • Back out of hell: the virtual katabasis and initiation of Silius' Minucius / Robert Cowan
  • Ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid / Neil W. Bernstein
  • The death and funeral rites of Opheltes in the Thebaid / Randall Ganiban
  • Epitaphic gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus / Martin T. Dinter
  • Part 3: Ritual and the female
  • Reconcilable differences: Anna Perenna and the battle of Cannae in the Punica / Raymond Marks
  • Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual / Alison Keith
  • Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid / Christopher Chinn
  • Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in the Achilleid / Vassiliki Panoussi.

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