Preface and acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface and acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Flavian epic interactions 1
5. Part I. Flavian Epic Politics
6. The Flavian Punica? 13
7. Imperial encomia in Flavian epic 29
8. Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry 55
9. Praise in Flavian epic 67
10. Critical interactions 87
11. Looking for the Giants 107
12. Part II. Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques
13. Flavian epic and the sublime 125
14. Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem 139
15. Teichoskopia and katabasis 157
16. Slavery in Flavian epic 177
17. The contradictions of Valerius’ and Statius’ Jupiter 195
18. Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic 215
19. Does mass matter? 229
20. Part III. Flavian Epic Intertextuality
21. Traces of the Argo 247
22. Silius versus Valerius 267
23. invida fata piis? 279
24. The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2 297
25. Beginning at the end 311
26. Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres 327
27. ‘Well stored with subtle wiles’ 343
28. Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality 361
29. Flaminius’ failure? 379
30. Bibliography 399
31. Index of names and subjects 425
32. Index of epic passages 435