Civil War, Parricide, and the Sword in Silius Italicus’s Punica

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Lucanean Lenses
6. Flavian Epic: Roman Ways of Metabolizing a Cultural Nightmare? 25
7. Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: Lucan and Civil War in Punica 14 51
8. How It All Began: Civil War and Valerius’s Argonautica 69
9. Part II: Narrating Nefas in Statius’s Thebaid
10. Signs of Discord: Statius’s Style and the Traditions on Civil War 89
11. Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius’s Thebaid 109
12. Civil War on the Horizon: Seneca’s Thyestes and Phoenissae in Statius’s Thebaid 7 123
13. Part III: Leadership and Exemplarity
14. Reading Civil War in Frontinus’s Strategemata: A Case-Study for Flavian Literary Studies 145
15. Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil War Themes in Silius’s Saguntum Episode 179
16. Vespasian’s Rise from Civil War in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum 199
17. Embroidered Histories: Lemnos and Rome in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica 227
18. Part IV: Family, Society, and Self
19. Band of Brothers: Fraternal Instability and Civil Strife in Silius Italicus’s Punica 253
20. Civil War, Parricide, and the Sword in Silius Italicus’s Punica 271
21. Engendering Civil War in Flavian Epic 295
22. A last act of love? Suicide and civil war as tropes in Silius Italicus’s Punica and Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum 321
23. Part V: Ruination, Restoration, and Empire
24. Domesticating Egypt in Pliny’s Natural History 341
25. Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe: Patterns of Cosmic Disintegration in the Argonautica 363
26. Instability and the Sublime in Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum 387
27. Bibliography 411
28. Notes on Contributors 443
29. Thematic Index 447
30. Index of Passages 463