Ritual and religion in Flavian epic / edited by Antony Augoustakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Augoustakis, Antony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ritual and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores the poets' use of the relationship between gods and humans and religious activities.

Contents:

Introduction : Representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis

Part I: Gods and humans

With (a) God on our side: ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian epic / Marco Fucecchi

Divine messages and human actions in the Argonautica / Gesine Manuwald

Competing visions: prophecy, spectacle, and theatricality in Flavian epic / Helen Lovatt

Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid / Anne Tuttle

'Considering the image of Thebes': celestial and poetic auspicy in the Thebaid / Eleni Manolaraki

Malae preces and their articulation in the Thebaid / Ann Hubert

Hymnic features in the Statian epic and the Siluae / Bruce Gibson

Religion and power in the Thebaid / Federica Bessone

Part 2: Death and ritual

Chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns: the shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid / Ruth Parkes

Wasted water: the failure of purification in the Thebaid / Nicholas Dee

Patterns of darkness: chthonic illusion, gigantomachy, and sacrificial ritual in the Punica / R. Joy Littlewood

Back out of hell: the virtual katabasis and initiation of Silius' Minucius / Robert Cowan

Ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid / Neil W. Bernstein

The death and funeral rites of Opheltes in the Thebaid / Randall Ganiban

Epitaphic gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus / Martin T. Dinter

Part 3: Ritual and the female

Reconcilable differences: Anna Perenna and the battle of Cannae in the Punica / Raymond Marks

Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual / Alison Keith

Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid / Christopher Chinn

Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in the Achilleid / Vassiliki Panoussi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-299-45394-5

0-19-162605-8

OCLC:

839687093