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Pages: 257
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Categories: Epic poetry, Latin
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gende
Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-07 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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 closu
Transgressive Heroism
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Authors: Raymond Marks
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut legend, the Argonautica, however, Valeriu
Flavian Epic Interactions
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Authors: Gesine Manuwald
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman
Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic
Language: en
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Authors: Antony Augoustakis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period. Drawing on various studies on religion and ri