Reading Fear In Flavian Epic

Author : Dalida Agri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Epic poetry, Latin
ISBN : 9780192859303

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Reading Fear in Flavian Epic by Dalida Agri Pdf

This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica. All three poems are obsessed with men in power with no power over themselves, a marked concern that carries a strong Senecan fingerprint. Seneca's influence on post-Neronian epic can be felt beyond his plays. His Epistles and other prose works prove particularly illuminating for each of the poet's gendered treatment of the relationship between power and emotion. By adopting a Roman Stoic perspective, both philosophical and cultural, this study brings together a cluster of major ideas to draw meaningful connections and unlock new readings.

Author : Dalida Agri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780192675415

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Reading Fear in Flavian Epic by Dalida Agri Pdf

This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica. All three poems are obsessed with men in power with no power over themselves, a marked concern that carries a strong Senecan fingerprint. Seneca's influence on post-Neronian epic can be felt beyond his plays. His Epistles and other prose works prove particularly illuminating for each of the poet's gendered treatment of the relationship between power and emotion. By adopting a Roman Stoic perspective, both philosophical and cultural, this study brings together a cluster of major ideas to draw meaningful connections and unlock new readings.

Author : Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110770483

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Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature by Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou Pdf

This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closure. It reveals that ritual can bring but also can thwart closure by alluding to new beginnings. A ritual could be a perfect kind of ending but it hardly ever seems to be. In Flavian literature this is even more apparent because of the complicated political background under which these texts were produced. Ancient religious practices in the closing sections of Flavian texts help us create connections between endings and (new) beginnings, order and disorder, binding and loosening, structure and dissolution which reflects the structure of the Empire in Flavian Rome. Overall, this volume offers a new tool for studying literary endings through ritual, which promotes our understanding of Flavian culture and politics as well as creating a new perception of the use of religion and ritual in Flavian literature: instead of giving a sense of closure, this volume argues that ritual is a medium to increase complexity, to expose ritual actors and to project a generic riskiness of ritual actors also onto the epic actors who are acting before and mostly after a ritual scene.

Author : Ruud R. Nauta,Johannes J.L Smolenaars,Harm-Jan van Dam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047417712

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Flavian Poetry by Ruud R. Nauta,Johannes J.L Smolenaars,Harm-Jan van Dam Pdf

This book offers a selection of the papers delivered at the international conference on Flavian poetry held at Groningen in 2003, which brought together leading experts in the field. The poets discussed include Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Statius and Martial.

Author : Elina Pyy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004443457

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Women and War in Roman Epic by Elina Pyy Pdf

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 : Anthony James Boyle,William J. Dominik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Rome
ISBN : UOM:39015051572199

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Flavian Rome by Anthony James Boyle,William J. Dominik Pdf

Author : Stefano Rebeggiani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190882921

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The Fragility of Power by Stefano Rebeggiani Pdf

Statius' narrative of the fraternal strife of the Theban brothers Eteocles and Polynices has had a profound influence on Western literature and fascinated generations of scholars and readers. This book studies in detail the poem's view of power and its interaction with historical contexts. Written under Domitian and in the aftermath of the civil war of 69 CE, the Thebaid uses the veil of myth to reflect on the political reality of imperial Rome. The poem offers its contemporary readers, including the emperor, a cautionary tale of kingship and power. Rooted in a pessimistic view of human beings and human relationships, the Thebaid reflects on the harsh necessity of monarchical power as the only antidote to a world always on the verge of returning to chaos. While humans, and especially kings, are fragile and often the prey of irrational passions, the Thebaid expresses the hope that an illuminated sovereign endowed with clementia (mercy) may offer a solution to the political crisis of the Roman empire. Statius' narrative also responds to Domitian's problematic interaction with the emperor Nero, whom Domitian regarded as both a negative model and a secret source of inspiration. With The Fragility of Power, Stefano Rebeggiani offers thoughtful parallels between the actions of the Thebaid and the intellectual activities and political views formulated by the groups of Roman aristocrats who survived Nero's repression. He argues that the poem draws inspiration from an initial phase in Domitian's regime characterized by a positive relationship between the emperor and the Roman elite. Statius creates a number of innovative strategies to negotiate elements of continuity between Domitian and Nero, so as to show that, while Domitian recuperated aspects of Nero's self-presentation, he was no second Nero. Statius' poem interacts with aspects of imperial ideology under Domitian: Statius' allusions to the stories of Phaethon and Hercules engage Domitian's use of solar symbols and his association with Hercules. This book also shows that the Thebaid adapts previous texts (in particular Lucan's Bellum Civile) in order to connect the mythical subject of its narrative with the historical experience of civil war in Rome in 69 CE. By moving past recent solely aesthetic readings of the Thebaid, The Fragility of Power offers a serious and thoughtful addition to the recent scholarship in Statian studies.

Author : Elina Pyy
Publisher : Language of Classical Lite
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004434909

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Women and War in Roman Epic by Elina Pyy Pdf

"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 : David Konstan,Myrto Garani
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869850

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The Philosophizing Muse by David Konstan,Myrto Garani Pdf

PIERIDES III, Editors: Myrto Garani and David Konstan Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and commonplaces have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular the impact of Pythagorean, Empedoclean, Epicurean and Stoic doctrines, on Latin verse has never been fully in...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : UCD:31175027085680

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The Classical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony James Boyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCLA:L0073449530

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The Imperial Muse by Anthony James Boyle Pdf

Author : Tim Stover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199644087

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Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome by Tim Stover Pdf

This volume offers a new interpretation of Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem. Stover's approach to the text is both formalist and historicist as he seeks not only to elucidate Flaccus' dynamic appropriation of Lucan, but also to associate the Argonautica's formal gestures within a specific socio-political context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006740570

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Ramus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : Oxford Readings in Classical S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199650667

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Flavian Epic by Antony Augoustakis Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : IND:30000092444086

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The Classical Outlook by Anonim Pdf