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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.
Price: $270.00
Pages: 454
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Publication Date:
16 January 2014
ISBN: 9789004266483
Format: Hardcover
"This volume serves two important purposes. First, it demonstrates the importance of Flavian engagement with Greek literature and thought even where we might least expect it, in writers like Silius and Martial. Second, it testifies to the vitality of the study of Flavian literature in contemporary Latin studies. These major poets are finally receiving the scrutiny and appreciation that they deserve." Peter Davis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.08.53.
Antony Augoustakis is Associate professor of Classics at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford) and Plautus’ Mercator (Bryn Mawr). He has edited Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus (Leiden), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford), and co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Terence (with Ariana Traill). He is completing a commentary on Statius' Thebaid Book 8 (Oxford).
Contributors: Federica Bessone, Cristiano Castelletti, Robert Cowan, Marco Fucecchi, Daniela Galli, Jean-Michel Hulls, Simone Finkmann, Evangelos Karakasis, Darcy Krasne, R. Joy Littlewood, Ana Maria Lóio, Irene Mitousi, Margot Neger, Arianna Sacerdoti, Carey Seal, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Jörn Soerink, Michiel van der Keur, Marco van der Schuur.
Contributors: Federica Bessone, Cristiano Castelletti, Robert Cowan, Marco Fucecchi, Daniela Galli, Jean-Michel Hulls, Simone Finkmann, Evangelos Karakasis, Darcy Krasne, R. Joy Littlewood, Ana Maria Lóio, Irene Mitousi, Margot Neger, Arianna Sacerdoti, Carey Seal, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Jörn Soerink, Michiel van der Keur, Marco van der Schuur.