Antiqui, veteres, novi: images of the literary past and the impulse to progress in the cultural program of Quintilian

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Genres and Literary History
5. Antiqui, veteres, novi: images of the literary past and the impulse to progress in the cultural program of Quintilian 19
6. Quintilian’s approach to literary history via imitatio and utilitas 47
7. II. Encyclopaedism and Oratory
8. Contingat aliqua gratia operae curaeque nostrae: an ethic of care in the Naturalis historia 65
9. Roman oratory and power under the Flavians: some case studies from Pliny the Younger 83
10. III. Tradition and Poetics of the Epigram
11. Bipartition and non-distinction of poetical genres in Martial: magnum vs parvum 103
12. Catullus 23 and Martial. An epigrammatic model and its ‘refraction’ throughout Martial’s libri 117
13. IV. Occasional Poetry and Literary Genres
14. The festinatio in Flavian poetry: a clarification 139
15. Scattered remarks about the ‘non-genre’ of Statius’ Silvae. The construction of a minor canon? 157
16. The early reception of the Silvae: from Statius to Sidonius 167
17. V. Models and Transformations of the Epos
18. The Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus and the Latin tradition on the beginning and end of history (Catullus, Virgil, Seneca) 187
19. Generic Attire: Hypsipyle’s Cloaks in Valerius Flaccus and Apollonius Rhodius 201
20. VI. War and Generic Tensions
21. The beautiful face of war: Refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry 231
22. Epic on the edge: generic instability at the pivotal centre of Silius’ Punica (10.336‒371) 253
23. Silius, Sicily, and the poetics of generic conflict: Grosphus in Punica 14.208‒217 269
24. Lyric resonances in Statius’ Achilleid 283
25. VII. Epic and Other Genres
26. Burial scenes: Silius Italicus’ Punica and Greco-Roman historiography 299
27. Is Capaneus an Epicurean? A case study in epic and philosophy 317
28. Bibliography 333
29. List of Contributors 359