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Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in scholarly interest in Valerius Flaccusâ??s Argonautica . Numerous analyses, discussions and commentaries on the poetical art of this â??difficultâ? epic have appeared. This volume provides a philological commentary on the first book of the Argonautica . Special attention is paid to the sources upon which Valerius drew, and a comparison made with earlier literary tradition (in particular with the first book of Vergilâ??s Aeneid , but also with Senecaâ??s tragedies). In addition, the language, style and compositional techniques which were…mehr

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Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in scholarly interest in Valerius Flaccusâ??s Argonautica. Numerous analyses, discussions and commentaries on the poetical art of this â??difficultâ? epic have appeared. This volume provides a philological commentary on the first book of the Argonautica. Special attention is paid to the sources upon which Valerius drew, and a comparison made with earlier literary tradition (in particular with the first book of Vergilâ??s Aeneid, but also with Senecaâ??s tragedies). In addition, the language, style and compositional techniques which were peculiar to epic during the Flavian period are studied.
In den letzten Jahren ist ein wachsendes wissenschaftliches Interesse an den Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus nicht zu übersehen. Zahlreiche Analysen, Abhandlungen und Kommentare sind zur Dichtkunst dieses so "schwierigen" Epos entstanden. Der vorliegende Band bietet einen philologischen Kommentar zum ersten Buch der Argonautica unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der von Valerius Flaccusverwendeten Quellen und der vorausgegangenen literarischen Überlieferung (speziell im Vergleich mit dem ersten Buch der Aeneis von Vergil, jedoch auch mit den Tragödien Senecas).Daneben werden Sprache, Stil und Kompositionstechnik untersucht, die dem Epos in flavischer Zeit eigen sind.
Autorenporträt
Daniela Galli, Università di Pisa, Italien.