Flavian Epic
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 June 2016
- ISBN 9780199650668
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages554 pages
- Size 222x143x34 mm
- Weight 766 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field.
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The epics of the three Flavian poets-Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus-have, in recent times, attracted the attention of scholars, who have re-evaluated the particular merits of Flavian poetry as far more than imitation of the traditional norms and patterns. Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field. A wide range of topics receive coverage, and analysis and interpretation of individual poems are integrated throughout. The plurality of the critical voices included in the volume presents a much-needed variety of approaches, which are used to tackle questions of intertextuality, gender, poetics, and the social and political context of the period. In doing so, the volume demonstrates that by engaging in a complex and challenging intertextual dialogue with their literary predecessors, the innovative epics of the Flavian poets respond to contemporary needs, expressing overt praise, or covert anxiety, towards imperial rule and the empire.
this volume will appeal both to seasoned Flavian scholars and to students relatively new to the discipline who are seeking to gain an understanding of how Flavian epic functions in general ... It will be an important addition to many Flavian scholars' bookshelves and will, hopefully, prompt a similar level of self-reflection with respect to the direction in which our own work is heading.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Text and Translations Used
Introduction: Flavian Epic Renaissance
A. Valerius Flaccus
ratis audax: Valerius Flaccus' Bold Ship
Virgilianisms in Valerius Flaccus: A Contribution to the Study of Epic Language in the Imperial Age
The Restoration of Ancient Models: Epic Tradition and Mannerist Technique in Valerius' Argonautica 6
Allusion and Narrative Possibility in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus
B. Statius
parce metu, Cytherea: Failed Intertext Repetition in Statius' Thebaid, or, Don't Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Ovid's Theban narrative in Statius' Thebaid
Statius' Hypsipyle: Following in the Footsteps of Virgil's Aeneid
lacrimabile nomen Archemorus: The Babe in the Woods in Statius' Thebaid 4-6
auferte oculos: Modes of Spectatorship in Statius' Thebaid 11
Competing Endings: Re-reading the End of Statius' Thebaid through Lucan
Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Macer to Statius
C. Silius Italicus
Silius' Rome: The Rewriting of Virgil's Vision
Color Ovidianus in Silius' Punica
lugendam formae sine uirginitate reliquit: Reading Pyrene and the Transformation of Landscape in Silius' Punica 3
per uulnera regnum: Self-destruction, Self-sacrifice and Deuotio in Punica 4-10
Echoes of the Contemporary World in Silius Italicus
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index Locorum
General Index
