Flavian Poetry and its Greek PastAntonios Augoustakis Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past breaks new ground by investigating the close interaction between Flavian poetry and Greek literary tradition and by evaluating the meaning of this affiliation in the socio-political and cultural context of the late first century CE. Authors examined include Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus. Their interaction with Greek literature is not just thematic or geographical: the Greek literary past is conceived as the poetic influence of a variety of authors, periods, and genres, such as Homer, the Cyclic tradition, Greek lyric poetry, Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry and aesthetics, and Greek historiography. |
Contents
Flavian Poetry and Its Traditions | 1 |
PART I FLAVIAN LITERATURE AND GREEK INTERTEXTS | 11 |
Quis magna tuenti somnus? Scenes of Sleeplessness and Intertextuality in Flavian Poetry | 13 |
PART II VALERIUS FLACCUS | 31 |
Poetic Destruction in Valerius Argonautica | 33 |
Aratus and the Aratean Tradition in Valerius Argonautica | 49 |
Collective Speech and Silence in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius | 73 |
The Deaths of Idmon and Tiphys in Valerius Argonautica | 95 |
A Homeric Simile in Statius Achilleid | 235 |
PART IV SILIUS ITALICUS | 249 |
Intertextual Characterization in Punica 7 | 251 |
Constructions of Fides in Hannibals Capuan Banquets | 267 |
Silius Homer in Homers Punica 13 | 287 |
Greek Literary Tradition and Silius On Kingship | 305 |
PART V MARTIAL | 325 |
Graece numquid ait poeta nescis? Martial and the Greek Epigrammatic Tradition | 327 |
Civil War and the Apollonian Model in Valerius Argonautica | 113 |
Dionysius Scytobrachions Argonautica and Valerius | 137 |
Valerius Argonautica as an Ideological Epic of the Flavian Era | 153 |
PART III STATIUS | 169 |
Statius Thebaid and Euripides Hypsipyle | 171 |
Statius Athens and the Tragic Self | 193 |
Greek Culture Roman Society and the System of Genres in Statius Poetry | 215 |
Martials Catullus Callimachus | 345 |
Talking Books Come to Flavian Rome | 373 |
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Index Locorum | 435 |
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