The literary genres in the Flavian age : canons, transformations, reception / edited by Federica Bessone and Marco Fucecchi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bessone, Federica, editor.

Fucecchi, Marco, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 51.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]

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Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Genres and Literary History

Antiqui, veteres, novi: images of the literary past and the impulse to progress in the cultural program of Quintilian / Citroni, Mario

Quintilian's approach to literary history via imitatio and utilitas / Baier, Thomas

II. Encyclopaedism and Oratory

Contingat aliqua gratia operae curaeque nostrae: an ethic of care in the Naturalis historia / Marchetti, Sandra Citroni

Roman oratory and power under the Flavians: some case studies from Pliny the Younger / Balbo, Andrea

III. Tradition and Poetics of the Epigram

Bipartition and non-distinction of poetical genres in Martial: magnum vs parvum / Canobbio, Alberto

Catullus 23 and Martial. An epigrammatic model and its 'refraction' throughout Martial's libri / Morelli, Alfredo Mario

IV. Occasional Poetry and Literary Genres

The festinatio in Flavian poetry: a clarification / Merli, Elena

Scattered remarks about the 'non-genre' of Statius' Silvae. The construction of a minor canon? / Bonadeo, Alessia

The early reception of the Silvae: from Statius to Sidonius / Newlands, Carole E.

V. Models and Transformations of the Epos

The Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus and the Latin tradition on the beginning and end of history (Catullus, Virgil, Seneca) / Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline

Generic Attire: Hypsipyle's Cloaks in Valerius Flaccus and Apollonius Rhodius / Zissos, Andrew

VI. War and Generic Tensions

The beautiful face of war: Refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry / Lovatt, Helen

Epic on the edge: generic instability at the pivotal centre of Silius' Punica (10.336-371) / Littlewood, R. Joy

Silius, Sicily, and the poetics of generic conflict: Grosphus in Punica 14.208-217 / Marks, Raymond

Lyric resonances in Statius' Achilleid / Keith, Alison

VII. Epic and Other Genres

Burial scenes: Silius Italicus' Punica and Greco-Roman historiography / Augoustakis, Antony

Is Capaneus an Epicurean? A case study in epic and philosophy / Reitz, Christiane

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Notes:

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Print version: Bessone, Federica The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age : Canons, Transformations, Reception

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9783110534436

3110534436

9783110533309

3110533308

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99974840121

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