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Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-07 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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
Language: en
Pages: 298
Pages: 298
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-07 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut legend, the Argonautica, however, Valeriu
Language: en
Pages: 460
Pages: 460
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
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
Language: en
Pages: 425
Pages: 425
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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