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Contents 8 Acknowledgments 12 List of Contributors 14 Texts and Translations Used 20 List of Abbreviations 22 Introduction. Between Greece and Italy: Flavian Poetry and Its Traditions 24 PART I. FLAVIAN LITERATURE AND GREEK INTERTEXTS 34 Quis magna tuenti / somnus? Scenes of Sleeplessness (and Intertextuality) in Flavian Poetry 36 PART II. VALERIUS FLACCUS 54 When the Argo Met the Argo: Poetic Destruction in Valerius' Argonautica 56 Aratus and the Aratean Tradition in Valerius' Argonautica 72 Collective Speech and Silence in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius 96 Conflating Funerals: The Deaths of Idmon and Tiphys in Valerius' Argonautica 118 Civil War and the Apollonian Model in Valerius' Argonautica 136 Dionysius Scytobrachion's Argonautica and Valerius 160 Valerius' Argonautica as an Ideological Epic of the Flavian Era 176 PART III. STATIUS 192 Tragic / Epic: Statius' Thebaid and Euripides' Hypsipyle 194 Greek Author, Greek Past: Statius, Athens, and the Tragic Self 216 Polis, Court, Empire: Greek Culture, Roman Society, and the System of Genres in Statius' Poetry 238 Like Purple on Ivory: A Homeric Simile in Statius' Achilleid 258 PART IV. SILIUS ITALICUS 272 Homeric Rec

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Author
Augoustakis, Antonios
Published
2013
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities

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