Table Of ContentFlavian Epic Interactions
Trends in Classics –
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Flavian Epic
Interactions
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Preface and acknowledgements
Most of the papers in this volume were originally delivered at the conference
‘Flavian Epic Interactions’ held at University College London on 23 and 24
June2011.ThisconferencewasorganizedbytheFlavianEpicNetworkandgen-
erously sponsored by the Department of Greek and Latin at University College
London, the Institute of Classical Studies in London, the Classical Association
in the UK and the home institutions of several of the speakers. A brief report
abouttheconferenceappearedinBollettinodistudilatini(41.2,2011,809–811).
Some of the papers delivered at the conference have appeared elsewhere,
while those published here have been supplemented by a few additional ones,
somebypeoplewhowereunabletoattendtheconferenceandsomespecifically
commissioned for this volume to ensure a good coverage of topics and ap-
proaches.
We are grateful to the editors of ‘Trends in Classics’ for accepting this vol-
ume for the series: ‘Trends in Classics’ is an excellent home for this collection
of papers, since they show how the studyof Flavian epic is movingon bycon-
sidering the connections between the three poets and their works.Thanks are
also due to the anonymous readers for the press,who have made a number of
very helpful suggestions on the shape of the volume as a whole as well as on
individualarticles.KatrinHofmannandMariaErgeatDeGruyterhavesupported
the project from the start and were excellent collaborators in the publication
process.
Justasattheoriginalconference,contributorsrangefromadvancedPhDstu-
dents tosenior scholars;all of them, in theirownways, have new and exciting
ideasonFlavianepictooffer.Theeditorshaveimposedacertainlevelofstand-
ardization of formalities toensureconsistencyacross the volume,but contribu-
tionshavebeenallowedtomaintaintheirdistinctivestylesandsomeofthecon-
ventions that go with them.
Everybody involved in creating this volume was very cooperative and pa-
tient;hencetheeditingprocesswasverypleasantandatrue‘interactive’enter-
prise!
London,January 2013 G. M. / A.V.
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements V
Gesine Manuwald / Astrid Voigt
Flavian epic interactions 1
Part I
Flavian Epic Politics
Marcus Wilson
The Flavian Punica? 13
John Penwill
Imperial encomia in Flavian epic 29
Daniela Galli
Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (1.7–21) and Statius’
Thebaid (1.17–33) 55
Bruce Gibson
Praise in Flavian epic 67
Federica Bessone
Critical interactions
ConstructingheroicmodelsandimperialideologyinFlavianepic 87
Marco Fucecchi
Looking for the Giants
Mythological imagery and discourse on power in Flavian epic 107
Part II
Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
Philip Hardie
Flavian epic and the sublime 125
VIII Contents
Neil W. Bernstein
Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem
Declamation and Flavian epic 139
Antony Augoustakis
Teichoskopia and katabasis
The poetics ofspectatorshipin Flavian epic 157
Martin T. Dinter
Slavery in Flavian epic 177
Cecilia Criado
The contradictions of Valerius’ and Statius’ Jupiter
Power and weakness of the supreme god in the epic and tragic
tradition 195
Stephen Harrison
Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic
Valerius Flaccus and Statius 215
Christiane Reitz
Does mass matter?
Theepiccatalogueoftroopsasnarrativeandmetapoeticdevice 229
Part III
Flavian Epic Intertextuality
Dániel Kozák
Traces of the Argo
Statius’ Achilleid 1 and Valerius’ Argonautica 1–2 247
Mark Heerink
Silius versus Valerius
Orpheus in the Punica and the Argonautica 267
Joy Littlewood
invida fata piis?
Exploring the significance of Silius’ divergence from the night raids of
Virgil and Statius 279
Contents IX
Raymond Marks
The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2 297
Anke Walter
Beginning at the end
Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes 311
Michiel van der Keur
Ofcorpses, carnivoresand Cecropian pyres
Funeral rites in Silius and Statius 327
Jean-Michel Hulls
‘Well stored with subtle wiles’
Pyrene, Psamathe and the Flavian art of interaction 343
Jörn Soerink
Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality 361
Pramit Chaudhuri
Flaminius’ failure?
Intertextual characterization in Silius Italicus and Statius 379
Bibliography 399
Index of names and subjects 425
Index of epic passages 435
