Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus / edited by Mark Heerink and Gesine Manuwald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heerink, Mark, editor.

Manuwald, Gesine, editor.

Series:

Brill's companions in classical studies.

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies, 1872-3357

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, active 1st century--Criticism and interpretation.

Valerius Flaccus, Gaius.

Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, active 1st century. Argonautica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual transmission, language, poetic techniques, main themes, characters, relationship to intertexts and reception. This will be a standard point of departure for anyone interested in Valerius Flaccus or Flavian epic more generally. Contributors are: Antony Augoustakis, Michael Barich, Neil Bernstein, Emma Buckley, Cristiano Castelletti, James Clauss, Robert Cowan, Peter Davis, Alain Deremetz, Attila Ferenczi, Marco Fucecchi, Randall Ganiban, Mark Heerink, Alison Keith, Helen Lovatt, Gesine Manuwald, Ruth Parkes, Tim Stover, Ruth Taylor-Briggs, and Andrew Zissos.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 Introduction / Mark Heerink and Gesine Manuwald

2 Utere bono tuo feliciter: The Textual Transmission and Manuscript History of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / P. Ruth Taylor-Briggs

3 Poet and Readers: Reflections on the Verbal and Narrative Art of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Michael Barich

4 Authorial Poetics in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Alain Deremetz

5 Valerius Flaccus, Virgil and the Poetics of Ekphrasis / Mark Heerink

6 Myth and Mythopoesis in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / James J. Clauss

7 War and Love in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Marco Fucecchi

8 Philosophical Ideas in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Attila Ferenczi

9 Romanas veluti saevissima cum legiones Tisiphone regesque movet: Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and the Flavian Era / Neil W. Bernstein

10 A Hero with a Sandal and a Buskin: The Figure of Jason in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Cristiano Castelletti

11 Medea: From Epic to Tragedy / Peter J. Davis

12 Teamwork, Leadership and Group Dynamics in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Helen Lovatt

13 My Family and Other Enemies: Argonautic Antagonists and Valerian Villains / Robert Cowan

14 Virgilian Prophecy and the Reign of Jupiter in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Randall T. Ganiban

15 Ovid and Valerius Flaccus / Alison Keith

16 Lucan and Valerius Flaccus: Rerouting the Vessel of Epic Song / Tim Stover

17 Valerius Flaccus and Seneca’s Tragedies / Emma Buckley

18 The Epics of Statius and Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Ruth Parkes

19 Valerius Flaccus in Silius Italicus / Antony Augoustakis

20 Interpres operis alieni? Giovan Battista Pio’s Continuation of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica / Andrew Zissos

Bibliography

Abstracts of Chapters

Index of Passages

General Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27865-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004278653 DOI