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Author : Nikoletta Manioti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324664
Family in Flavian Epic offers an exploration of family bonds depicted in the epics of Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus, and examines their links to the epic tradition and Flavian Rome.
Author : Sophia Papaioannou,Agis Marinis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110709971
In the light of recent scholarly work on tragic patterns and allusions in Flavian epic, the publication of a volume exclusively dedicated to the relationship between Flavian epic and tragedy is timely. The volume, concentrating on the poetic works of Silius Italicus, Statius and Valerius Flaccus, consists of eight original contributions, two by the editors themselves and a further six by experts on Flavian epic. The volume is preceded by an introduction by the editors and it concludes with an ‘Afterword’ by Carole E. Newlands. Among key themes analysed are narrative patterns, strategies or type-scenes that appear to derive from tragedy, the Aristotelian notions of hamartia and anagnorisis, human and divine causation, the ‘transfer’ of individual characters from tragedy to epic, as well as instances of tragic language and imagery. The volume at hand showcases an array of methodological approaches to the question of the presence of tragic elements in epic. Hence, it will be of interest to scholars and students in the area of Classics or Literary Studies focusing on such intergeneric and intertextual connections; it will be also of interest to scholars working on Flavian epic or on the ancient reception of Greek and Roman tragedy.
Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : Oxford Readings in Classical S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199650667
The epics of the three Flavian poets--Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus--have, in recent times, attracted the attention of scholars, who have re-evaluated the particular merits of Flavian poetry as far more than imitation of the traditional norms and patterns. Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field. A wide range of topics receive coverage, and analysis and interpretation of individual poems are integrated throughout. The plurality of the critical voices included in the volume presents a much-needed variety of approaches, which are used to tackle questions of intertextuality, gender, poetics, and the social and political context of the period. In doing so, the volume demonstrates that by engaging in a complex and challenging intertextual dialogue with their literary predecessors, the innovative epics of the Flavian poets respond to contemporary needs, expressing overt praise, or covert anxiety, towards imperial rule and the empire.
Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199644094
This collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period. Drawing on various studies on religion and ritual and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores the poets' use of the relationship between gods and humans and religious activities.
Author : Gesine Manuwald,Astrid Voigt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110314304
This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and 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 (Argonautica; Thebaid, Achilleid; Punica). The interactions of these poems with each other and their contemporary context are explored by over 20 experts and emerging scholars. Topics studied include the political dimension of the epics, their use of epic themes and techniques and their intertextual relationship among each other and to predecessors. The recent upsurge of interest in Flavian epic has been focussed on the analysis of individual works. Looking at these poems together now allows the appreciation of their similarities and nuanced differences in the light of their shared position in literary and political history and gives insights into the literary culture of the period. The different approaches and backgrounds of the contributors ensure the presentation of a range of viewpoints. Together they offer new perspectives to the still increasing readership of Flavian epic poetry but also to anyone interested in the epic genre within Roman literature or other cultures more generally.
Author : Neil Coffee,Chris Forstall,Lavinia Galli Milic,Damien Nelis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110599756
This collection of essays reaffirms the central importance of adopting an intertextual approach to the study of Flavian epic poetry and shows, despite all that has been achieved, just how much still remains to be done on the topic. Most of the contributions are written by scholars who have already made major contributions to the field, and taken together they offer a set of state of the art contributions on individual topics, a general survey of trends in recent scholarship, and a vision of at least some of the paths work is likely to follow in the years ahead. In addition, there is a particular focus on recent developments in digital search techniques and the influence they are likely to have on all future work in the study of the fundamentally intertextual nature of Latin poetry and on the writing of literary history more generally.
Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199584413
In this pioneering study, Antony Augoustakis reconstructs the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature, examining the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood.
Author : Katerina Carvounis,Sophia Papaioannou,Giampiero Scafoglio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110791983
The volume offers an innovative and systematic exploration of the diverse ways in which Later Greek Epic interacts with the Latin literary tradition. Taking as a starting point the premise that it is probable for the Greek epic poets of the Late Antiquity to have been familiar with leading works of Latin poetry, either in the original or in translation, the contributions in this book pursue a new form of intertextuality, in which the leading epic poets of the Imperial era (Quintus of Smyrna, Triphiodorus, Nonnus, and the author of the Orphic Argonautica) engage with a range of models in inventive, complex, and often covert ways. Instead of asking, in other words, whether Greek authors used Latin models, we ask how they engaged with them and why they opted for certain choices and not for others. Through sophisticated discussions, it becomes clear that intertexts are usually systems that combine ideology, cultural traditions, and literary aesthetics in an inextricable fashion. The book will prove that Latin literature, far from being distinct from the Greek epic tradition of the imperial era, is an essential, indeed defining, component within a common literary and ideological heritage across the Roman empire.
Author : Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Michael Paschalis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9789605242039
Author : Alice König,Christopher Whitton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420594
The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). Authors treated include Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus. Key topics and approaches include recitation, allusion, intertextuality, 'extratextuality' and socioliterary interactions.
Author : Christiane Reitz,Simone Finkmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 2756 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110492590
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Author : Elina Pyy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004443457
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classical narratology and Julia Kristeva’s subjectivity theory, Pyy scrutinises how gendered marginality is constructed in the genre and how it contributes to the fashioning of Roman imperial identity. Focusing on the ambiguous elements of epic, the study looks beyond the binary oppositions between the Self and the Other, male and female, and Roman and barbarian.
Author : Robert C Simms
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004360921
Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores the long tradition of continuing Greek and Roman epics from Homer and the epic cycle to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.
Author : Andrew M. McClellan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482622
The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.
Author : M. J. Clarke,B. G. F. Currie,R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191534782
This collection of essays, written by former pupils of his, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius' Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts - the essence of the term 'interaction' in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition.