Ritual and Religion 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 Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic write by Antony Augoustakis. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period. Drawing on various studies on religion and ritual and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores the poets' use of the relationship between gods and humans and religious activities.
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.
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.
Family in Flavian Epic
Family 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 Family in Flavian Epic write by Nikoletta Manioti. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Family in Flavian Epic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Family in Flavian Epic examines the treatment of family bonds in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus’ Punica. The eleven contributions consider the representation of epic parents, children, siblings, and spouses, and their interaction with each other, demonstrating the Flavian poets’ engagement with their epic, and more generally literary, tradition. At the same time, Roman attitudes towards the family and Flavian concerns especially related to dynastic harmony and civil war also characterise both historical and mythological members of Flavian epic families.
Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic
Elements of Tragedy 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 Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic write by Sophia Papaioannou. This book was released on 2021-01-18. Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the light of recent scholarly work on tragic patterns and allusions in Flavian epic, the publication of a volume exclusively dedicated to the relationship between Flavian epic and tragedy is timely. The volume, concentrating on the poetic works of Silius Italicus, Statius and Valerius Flaccus, consists of eight original contributions, two by the editors themselves and a further six by experts on Flavian epic. The volume is preceded by an introduction by the editors and it concludes with an ‘Afterword’ by Carole E. Newlands. Among key themes analysed are narrative patterns, strategies or type-scenes that appear to derive from tragedy, the Aristotelian notions of hamartia and anagnorisis, human and divine causation, the ‘transfer’ of individual characters from tragedy to epic, as well as instances of tragic language and imagery. The volume at hand showcases an array of methodological approaches to the question of the presence of tragic elements in epic. Hence, it will be of interest to scholars and students in the area of Classics or Literary Studies focusing on such intergeneric and intertextual connections; it will be also of interest to scholars working on Flavian epic or on the ancient reception of Greek and Roman tragedy.
