Fides in Flavian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fides in Flavian Literature write by Antony Augoustakis. This book was released on 2019. Fides in Flavian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the presence of Fides (good faith) in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome's civil wars (68-69 CE) in a variety of works by prose and verse authors.
Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature
Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature write by Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou. This book was released on 2023-08-07. Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closure. It reveals that ritual can bring but also can thwart closure by alluding to new beginnings. A ritual could be a perfect kind of ending but it hardly ever seems to be. In Flavian literature this is even more apparent because of the complicated political background under which these texts were produced. Ancient religious practices in the closing sections of Flavian texts help us create connections between endings and (new) beginnings, order and disorder, binding and loosening, structure and dissolution which reflects the structure of the Empire in Flavian Rome. Overall, this volume offers a new tool for studying literary endings through ritual, which promotes our understanding of Flavian culture and politics as well as creating a new perception of the use of religion and ritual in Flavian literature: instead of giving a sense of closure, this volume argues that ritual is a medium to increase complexity, to expose ritual actors and to project a generic riskiness of ritual actors also onto the epic actors who are acting before and mostly after a ritual scene.
After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome
After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome write by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg. This book was released on 2018-12-17. After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fall of Nero and the civil wars of 69 CE ushered in an era scarred by the recent conflicts; Flavian literature also inherited a rich tradition of narrating nefas from its predecessors who had confronted and commemorated the traumas of Pharsalus and Actium. Despite the present surge of scholarly interest in both Flavian literary studies and Roman civil war literature, however, the Flavian contribution to Rome’s literature of bellum ciuile remains understudied. This volume shines a spotlight on these neglected voices. In the wake of 69 CE, writing civil war became an inescapable project for Flavian Rome: from Statius’s fraternas acies and Silius’s suicidal Saguntines to the internecine narratives detailed in Josephus’s Bellum Iudaicum and woven into Frontinus’s exempla, Flavian authors’ preoccupation with civil war transcends genre and subject matter. This book provides an important new chapter in the study of Roman civil war literature by investigating the multi-faceted Flavian response to this persistent and prominent theme.
Lucan and Flavian Epic
Lucan and Flavian Epic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucan and Flavian Epic write by Kyle Gervais. This book was released on 2023-12-11. Lucan and Flavian Epic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all been the subject of a remarkable increase in scholarly attention and appreciation. Lucan and Flavian epic characterizes and historicizes that moment, showing how the qualities of the poems and the histories of their receptions have brought about the kind of analysis and attention they are now receiving. Serving both experienced scholars of the poems and students interested in them for the first time, this book offers a new perspective on current and future directions in scholarship.
Reading Fear in Flavian Epic
Reading Fear in Flavian Epic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Fear in Flavian Epic write by Dalida Agri. This book was released on 2022-06-30. Reading Fear in Flavian Epic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica. All three poems are obsessed with men in power with no power over themselves, a marked concern that carries a strong Senecan fingerprint. Seneca's influence on post-Neronian epic can be felt beyond his plays. His Epistles and other prose works prove particularly illuminating for each of the poet's gendered treatment of the relationship between power and emotion. By adopting a Roman Stoic perspective, both philosophical and cultural, this study brings together a cluster of major ideas to draw meaningful connections and unlock new readings.
