30. The Perils of Prophecy: Statius’ Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Introduction VII
4. I Comedy and Sexuality
5. 1. Act 4 of the Menaechmi: Plautus and His Original 3
6. 2. The Madman and the Doctor 15
7. 3. Philemon’s Thesauros as a Dramatization of Peripatetic Ethics 32
8. 4. Heautontimoroumenos and Adelphoe : A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander 51
9. 5. Sex, Status and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy 79
10. 6. Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome 115
11. 7a. Domina-tricks, or How to Construct a Good Whore from a Bad One 144
12. 7b. Women of the Demi-Monde and Sisterly Solidarity in the Cistellaria 157
13. 7c. Maidens in Other-Land, or Broads Abroad: Plautus’ Poenulae 176
14. 8. Terence and the Familiarization of Comedy 195
15. 9. Roman Experience of Menander in the Late Republic and Early Empire 215
16. 10. Mime: The Missing Link in Roman Literary History 228
17. II Rhetoric and Literary culture
18. 11. Imitation and Evolution: The Discussion of Rhetorical Imitation in Cicero De oratore 2.87–97 and Some Related Problems in Ciceronian Theory 243
19. 12. Imitation and Decline: Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the First Century AD 265
20. 13. Orator and/et Actor 285
21. 14. Disowning and Dysfunction in the Declamatory Family 302
22. 15. Quintilian on the Uses and Methods of Declamation 320
23. 16. The Concept of Nature and Human Nature in Quintilian’s Psychology and Theory of Instruction 331
24. 17. The Synchronistic Chapter of Gellius (N.A. 17.21) and Some Aspects of Roman Chronology and Cultural History Between 60 and 50 BCE 343
25. III Ovid’s Narrative Poem, the Fasti
26. 18. Sexual Comedy in Ovid’s Fasti : Sources and Motivation 359
27. 19. The role of Evander in Ovid’s Fasti 393
28. 20. Ceres, Liber and Flora: Georgic and Anti-Georgic Elements in Ovid’s Fasti 409
29. 21. The Fasti as a Source for Women’s Participation in Roman Cult 430
30. IV Passion and Civil War in Roman Tragedy and Epic: Seneca, Lucan and Statius
31. 22. Andromache’s Child in Euripides and Seneca 457
32. 23. Statius’ Achilles, and His Trojan Model 475
33. 24. Incest and Fratricide in Seneca’s Phoenissae 482
34. 25. Caesar and the Mutiny: Lucan’s Reshaping of the Historical Tradition in De Bello Civili 5.237–373 502
35. 26. Religio … dira loci : Two Passages in Lucan De Bello Civili 3 and Their Relation to Virgil’s Rome and Latium 519
36. 27. The Angry Poet and the Angry Gods: Problems of Theodicy in Lucan’s Epic of Defeat 535
37. 28. Discordia fratrum : Aspects of Lucan’s Conception of Civil War 559
38. 29. Statius’ Thebaid and the Genesis of Hatred 577
39. 30. The Perils of Prophecy: Statius’ Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents 607
40. 31. Chironis exemplum : On Teachers and Surrogate Fathers in Achilleid and Silvae 624