Description
This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four epic poems from the same period. The interactions of these poems with each other and their contemporary context are explored by over 20 experts and emerging scholars. Together they offer new perspectives to the still increasing readership of Flavian epic poetry.
Chapter
Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry. Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (1.7–21) and Statius’ Thebaid (1.17–33)
Critical interactions. Constructing heroic models and imperial ideology in Flavian epic
Looking for the Giants. Mythological imagery and discourse on power in Flavian epic
Part II Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
Flavian epic and the sublime
Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem. Declamation and Flavian epic
Teichoskopia and katabasis. The poetics of spectatorship in Flavian epic
The contradictions of Valerius’ and Statius’ Jupiter. Power and weakness of the supreme god in the epic and tragic tradition
Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic. Valerius Flaccus and Statius
Does mass matter? The epic catalogue of troops as narrative and metapoetic device
Part III Flavian Epic Intertextuality
Traces of the Argo. Statius’ Achilleid 1 and Valerius’ Argonautica 1–2
Silius versus Valerius. Orpheus in the Punica and the Argonautica
invida fata piis? Exploring the significance of Silius’ divergence from the night raids of Virgil and Statius
The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2
Beginning at the end. Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes
Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres. Funeral rites in Silius and Statius
‘Well stored with subtle wiles’. Pyrene, Psamathe and the Flavian art of interaction
Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality
Flaminius’ failure? Intertextual characterization in Silius Italicus and Statius
Index of names and subjects
Part II Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
Part III Flavian Epic Intertextuality
Index of names and subjects
Flavian Epic Interactions
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