Cristiano Castelletti

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 8

Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is the first dedicated English commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian epic Argonautica. The commentary addresses questions of the original length of the poem, of intertextuality, and of poetic practices in late first-century CE Rome.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780192865892
• ISBN-10: 0192865897
• Artikelnr.: 66228498

Autorenporträt

The late Cristiano Castelletti (1971-2017) was a Swiss classical scholar, who published widely on Valerius Flaccus and other Roman poets. Antony Augoustakis is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Marco Fucecchi is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Udine. Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Context and Aim of this Commentary
2: The Poem's Ideology in a Sphragis
3: The Eighth Book and the End of the Poem
4: Text, Sigla, Editions, and Textual Abbreviations
TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY