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HALF-TITLE 2 SERIES-TITLE 4 TITLE 6 COPYRIGHT 7 DEDICATION 8 CONTENTS 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 11 ABBREVIATIONS 13 INTRODUCTION 14 Concepts of games 17 Prelude 21 A very brief history of Roman games 23 Playing with Homer and Virgil 25 The epic programme 32 1 THE CHARIOT RACE 36 Introduction 36 Races within races: repetition and deletion 39 The chariot of song 42 Polynices as Phaethon 45 Conclusion 52 EPIC GAMES AND REAL GAMES 53 Dressed to win? 54 Greek and Roman in the wrestling 58 Spectacular spaces 60 Conclusions 67 2 THE RUNNING 68 Intertextual reflections: supplementation 69 Nisus and Euryalus 72 Parthenopaeus and Statius’ version of the beautiful boy 75 Epic stars 78 Eros and the audience 80 The reflected star 84 The reflected tradition 88 AUDIENCES 93 Introduction 93 Homer: the powerful audience 96 Virgil: the controlled audience 99 Conclusion 112 3 THE DISCUS 114 Iliad versus Odyssey 114 Practice and reality 117 Measuring up to the task 120 GIGANTOMACHY 127 Mythic confusion and civil war 128 Hippomedon: the reluctant giant 132 The rhetoric of gigantomachy 134 Capaneus: gigantic poetics 141 Capaneus as giant 144 Assimilating Capaneus and Jupiter 146 Capaneus as poet figure 149 Co

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Author

Statius, Publius Papinius;Lovatt, Helen

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction