Dalida Agri

Reading Fear in Flavian Epic

Emotion, Power, and Stoicism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the textual representations of fear and its cognate emotions (anger, envy, and hatred) in Flavian epic through the ancient framework of Stoic thought on emotion, with a focus on Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780192859303
• ISBN-10: 0192859307
• Artikelnr.: 66172466

Autorenporträt

Dalida Agri is Hon. Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She has published on several aspects of Roman literature. Her research interests range widely across Greek and Latin literature, especially epic poetry, ancient philosophy, gender, political thought, and emotion. She is particularly interested in the interactions between literature and philosophy in Roman epic and society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notes on Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Fear in Flavian representations of epic tyrants: depictions and uses of emotion
2: Reading fear in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
3: Reading fear in Statius' Thebaid
4: Reading fear in Silius Italicus' Punica
Epilogue
Bibliography