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In the image of the ancestors : narratives of kinship in Flavian epic / Neil W. Bernstein.
LIBRA PA6050 .B47 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Neil W., 1973-
- Series:
- Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 48.
- Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 48
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, active 1st century.
- Valerius Flaccus, Gaius.
- Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius).
- Statius, P. Papinius.
- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Kinship in literature.
- Families in literature.
- Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text in Latin.
- Contents:
- 1 Kinship as Narrative 7
- 2 Valerius' Argonautica: Kinship and Power 30
- 3 Statius' Thebaid 64
- Kinship as Destiny 64
- Kinship and Gender 85
- 4 Statius' Achilleid: Nature and Nurture 105
- 5 Silius' Punica: Kinship and the State 132
- 6 From Family to Nation: Descent and Ethnicity in Flavian Epic 160
- 7 The Poetics of Kinship 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-263) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780802098795
- 0802098797
- OCLC:
- 222516697
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