Tim Stover

Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus, Statius, and Claudian. Through analysing intertextual allusions to the Argonautica in these poems and their effects, it provides new clarity to the literary history of the Flavian period (69-96 CE).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780192870919
• ISBN-10: 0192870912
• Artikelnr.: 67863218

Autorenporträt

Tim Stover is an Associate Professor at Florida State University who specializes in Latin poetry. In addition to articles on Lucretius, Vergil, Seneca, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius he is the author of Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome: A New Reading of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (OUP, 2012). He is also the co-editor of Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Silius Italicus' Punica
2: The Thebaid's Argonautic Program
3: Statius' Thebaid
4: Statius' Achilleid
5: Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae
Conclusion
References
Index of Passages
General Index