Research Catalog

Title

Flavian epic interactions / edited by Gesine Manuwald and Astrid Voigt.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Manuwald, Gesine
• Manuwald, Gesine,
• Voigt, Astrid,
• Voigt, Astrid.

Description

ix, 447 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 21

Uniform Title

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 21.

Subject

• Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius > Criticism and interpretation
• Statius, P. Papinius > Criticism and interpretation
• Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, active 1st century > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Flavian epic interactions / Gesine Manuwald, Astrid Voigt -- The Flavian Punica? / Marcus Wilson -- Imperial encomia in Flavian epic / John Penwill -- Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry: Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (1.7-21) and Statius' Thebaid (1.17-33) / Daniela Galli -- Praise in Flavian epic / Bruce Gibson -- Critical interactions: Constructing heroic models and imperial ideology in Flavian epic / Federica Bessone -- Looking for the giants: Mythological imagery and discourse on power in Flavian epic / Marco Fucecchi -- Flavian epic and the sublime / Philip Hardie -- Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem: Declamation and Flavian epic / Neil W. Bernstein -- Teichoskopia and katabasis: The poetics of spectatorship in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis -- Slavery in Flavian epic / Martin T. Dinter -- The contradictions of Valerius' and Statius' Jupiter: Power and weakness of the supreme god in the epic and tragic tradition / Cecilia Criado -- Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic: Valerius Flaccus and Statius / Stephen Harrison -- Does mass matter? The epic catalogue of troops as narrative and metapoetic device / Christiane Reitz -- Traces of the Argo: Statius' Achilleid 1 and Valerius' Argonautica 1-2 / Dániel Kozák -- Silius versus Valerius: Orpheus in the Punica and the Argonautica / Mark Heerink -- Invida fata piis? Exploring the significance of Silius' divergence from the night raids of Virgil and Statius / Joy Littlewood -- The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2 / Raymond Marks -- Beginning at the end: Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes / Anke Walter -- Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres: Funeral rites in Silius and Statius / Michiel van der Keur -- "Well stored with subtle wiles": Pyrene, Psamathe and the Flavian art of interaction / Jean-Michel Hulls -- Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality / Jörn Soerink -- Flaminius' failure? Intertextual characterization in Silius Italicus and Statius / Pramit Chaudhuri.

ISBN

• 9783110314274 (hd.bd.)
• 9783110314304 (online) (canceled/invalid)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library