Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: Narrative Transition and Structural Intertextuality in Statius Thebaid 1 21
6. Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 3.598–725: Epic, History, and Intertextuality 43
7. Allusive Technique in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus 65
8. Searching for Ovid at Cannae: A Contribution to the Reception of Ovid in Silius Italicus’ Punica 87
9. The Flavian Epics and the Neoterics 107
10. Allusive (Im-)Pertinence in Statius’ Epic 133
11. Collateral Damage? Todeskette in Flavian Epic 169
12. Replaying Dido: Elegy and the Poetics of Inversion in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 187
13. Foreshadowing Medea: Prolepsis and Intertextuality in Valerius Flaccus 205
14. Ulysses as an Inter (and Meta-)textual Hero in the Achilleid of Statius 243
15. Constructing (Super-)characters: The Case Study of Silius’ Hannibal 259
16. The Redemption of the Monster, or: The ‘Evil Hero’ in Ancient Epic 283
17. Flavian Gods in Intertextual Perspective. How Rulers Used Religious Practice as a Means of Communicating 305
18. Palatine Apollo, Augustan Architectural Ecphrasis, and Flavian Epic Intertextuality 323
19. Statius’ Post-Vesuvian Landscapes and Virgil’s Parthenope 349
20. Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on the Use of Poetic Tradition in Silius Italicus’ Punica 373
21. Lemmatizing Latin and Quantifying the Achilleid 389
22. How Rare are the Words that Make Up Intertexts? A Study in Latin and Greek Epic Poetry 409
23. Pre- and Post-digital Poetics of ‘Transliteralism’: Some Greco-Roman Epic Incipits 421
24. List of Contributors 447
25. Index Locorum 451