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9780199650668

Flavian Epic

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    9780199650668

  • ISBN10:

    0199650667

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-08-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial Scholar. He is also President Elect of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (USA) for 2015-2016 and an Associate Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Illinois.

Table of Contents


Preface
List of Abbreviations
Text and Translations Used
1. Introduction: Flavian Epic Renaissance, Antony Augoustakis
A. Valerius Flaccus
2. ratis audax: Valerius Flaccus' Bold Ship, Martha A. Davis
3. Virgilianisms in Valerius Flaccus: A Contribution to the Study of Epic Language in the Imperial Age, Roberta Nordera
4. The Restoration of Ancient Models: Epic Tradition and Mannerist Technique in Valerius' Argonautica 6, Marco Fuecchi
5. Allusion and Narrative Possibility in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus, Andrew Zissos
B. Statius
6. parce metu, Cytherea: Failed Intertext Repetition in Statius' Thebaid, or, Don't Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, Debra Hershkowitz
7. Ovid's Theban narrative in Statius' Thebaid, Alison Keith
8. Statius' Hypsipyle: Following in the Footsteps of Virgil's Aeneid, S. Georgia Nugent
9. lacrimabile nomen Archemorus: The Babe in the Woods in Statius' Thebaid 4-6, Joanna Brown
10. auferte oculos: Modes of Spectatorship in Statius' Thebaid 11, Neil Bernstein
11. Competing Endings: Re-reading the End of Statius' Thebaid through Lucan, Helen Lovatt
12. Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Macer to Statius, Stephen Hinds
C. Silius Italicus
13. Silius' Rome: The Rewriting of Virgil's Vision, Arthur Pomeroy
14. Color Ovidianus in Silius' Punica, Richard T. Bruere
15. lugendam formae sine uirginitate reliquit: Reading Pyrene and the Transformation of Landscape in Silius' Punica 3, Antony Augoustakis
16. per uulnera regnum: Self-destruction, Self-sacrifice and Deuotio in Punica 4-10, Raymond Marks
17. Echoes of the Contemporary World in Silius Italicus, Alessandro Mezzanotte
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index Locorum
General Index

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