The war with God : theomachy in Roman imperial poetry /

"Epic and tragedy, from Homer's Achilles and Euripides' Pentheus to Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Milton's Satan, are filled with characters challenging and warring against the gods. Nowhere is the theme of theomachy more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chaudhuri, Pramit (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Theology in literature.
Theomachy.
Good and evil in literature.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Théologie dans la littérature.
Théomachie.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Good and evil in literature
Latin poetry
Theology in literature
Theomachy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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  • Introduction
  • 1. Theomachy in Greek Epic and Tragedy
  • 2. The Origins of Roman Theomachy: Lucretius and Vergil
  • 3. Theomachy as Test in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • 4. Deification and Theomachy in Seneca's Hercules Furens
  • 5. Theomachy in Historical Epic: Disenchantment and Remystification in Lucan's Bellum Civile
  • 6. Paradigms of Theomachy in Flavian Epic: Homer, Intertextuality, and the Struggle for Identity
  • 7. The War of the Worlds: Hannibal as Theomach in Silius Italicus' Punica
  • 8. Theomachy and the Limits of Epic: Capaneus in Statius' Thebaid
  • 9. The Politics of Theomachy
  • Epilogue.

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