Pramit Chaudhuri

War with God

Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining literary accounts of theomachy, The War With God provides a new perspective on the canonical literary traditions of epic and tragedy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780199993383
• ISBN-10: 0199993386
• Artikelnr.: 40185116

Autorenporträt

Pramit Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. He is the co-editor of Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Texts and Abbreviations
* Chronology of Poets and Emperors
* Introduction
* 1. Theomachy in Greek Epic and Tragedy
* 2. The Origins of Roman Theomachy: Lucretius and Vergil
* 3. Theomachy as Test in Ovid's Metamorphoses
* 4. Deification and Theomachy in Seneca's Hercules Furens
* 5. Theomachy in Historical Epic: Disenchantment and Remystification
in Lucan's Bellum Civile
* 6. Paradigms of Theomachy in Flavian Epic: Homer, Intertextuality,
and the Struggle for Identity
* 7. The War of the Worlds: Hannibal as Theomach in Silius Italicus'
Punica
* 8. Theomachy and the Limits of Epic: Capaneus in Statius' Thebaid
* 9. The Politics of Theomachy
* Epilogue
* Bibliography
* Index of Passages
* General Index