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        Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic
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        Stephen Harrison
        
                                    
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                                            Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface and acknowledgements v
- Contents vii
- Flavian epic interactions 1
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                            Part I. Flavian Epic Politics
- The Flavian Punica? 13
- Imperial encomia in Flavian epic 29
- Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry 55
- Praise in Flavian epic 67
- Critical interactions 87
- Looking for the Giants 107
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                            Part II. Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
- Flavian epic and the sublime 125
- Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem 139
- Teichoskopia and katabasis 157
- Slavery in Flavian epic 177
- The contradictions of Valerius’ and Statius’ Jupiter 195
- Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic 215
- Does mass matter? 229
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                            Part III. Flavian Epic Intertextuality
- Traces of the Argo 247
- Silius versus Valerius 267
- invida fata piis? 279
- The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2 297
- Beginning at the end 311
- Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres 327
- ‘Well stored with subtle wiles’ 343
- Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality 361
- Flaminius’ failure? 379
- Bibliography 399
- Index of names and subjects 425
- Index of epic passages 435
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface and acknowledgements v
- Contents vii
- Flavian epic interactions 1
- 
                            Part I. Flavian Epic Politics
- The Flavian Punica? 13
- Imperial encomia in Flavian epic 29
- Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry 55
- Praise in Flavian epic 67
- Critical interactions 87
- Looking for the Giants 107
- 
                            Part II. Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
- Flavian epic and the sublime 125
- Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem 139
- Teichoskopia and katabasis 157
- Slavery in Flavian epic 177
- The contradictions of Valerius’ and Statius’ Jupiter 195
- Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic 215
- Does mass matter? 229
- 
                            Part III. Flavian Epic Intertextuality
- Traces of the Argo 247
- Silius versus Valerius 267
- invida fata piis? 279
- The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2 297
- Beginning at the end 311
- Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres 327
- ‘Well stored with subtle wiles’ 343
- Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality 361
- Flaminius’ failure? 379
- Bibliography 399
- Index of names and subjects 425
- Index of epic passages 435