Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 December 2025
- ISBN 9780198850748
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the Flavian period of ancient Rome (69-96 CE). It centers intertextuality- the study of verbal and thematic allusions to earlier texts-as a key component of Valerius Flaccus's compositional practice.
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Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an eclectic mix of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Empedoclean doctrine, on an ethical as well as a cosmological level) to construct an unstable cosmos that is, on multiple levels, both prone to dissolution and a breeding ground for cycles of civil war. The book argues that Valerius's intertextual practices can be read as a form of “cosmopoetics,” in that he uses language, images, and ideas from earlier literature to collectively build a picture of the cosmos's operation within his poem. At the study's heart and, it is argued, of Valerius's epic are the elements of air and fire, as aspects of nature, as personified mythological beings, and as active cosmic forces functioning in parallel across physical and conceptual strata (from the subterranean to the celestial; from the social to the macrocosmic). Looking to move beyond “pessimistic” and “recuperative” readings of the epic, Structuring the Cosmos reevaluates Valerius's engagement with the Flavian literary, philosophical, and historical climate, especially as a poet of civil war.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. What Lies Beneath: Fires of the Earth
The Home of the Winds
The Bed(s) of Typhon
The Works of Vulcan's Forge
Part II. Didactic Discourses
An Educational Voyage
Causes and Symptoms
Part III. Lemnos: An Interpretative Hotspot
The Divine Pathogen
The Circle Game
Priscae vestigia fraudis
Part IV. You Give Me Fever: Fires of Body and Soul
The Embodied Flame
A Sickness of the Soul
Boxing at Bebrycia
Part V. Caelum imitatus in orbe: Fires of the Heavens
Valerius's Astronautica
Tendite in astra, viri!
Heavenly Bodies
The Phoenix and the Capitolium
Afterword
