Abstract
AbstractBuilding up from Seneca’s theory on emotion, Chapter 1 explores the depictions and uses of fear and related emotions (e.g., envy, anger, hatred), in the tyrant’s psychology across all three Flavian epics and their role in the image of the tyrant as the feminized ‘other’. It is divided into four main sections, each dedicated to a case study: King Pelias in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Polynices as an aspiring tyrant, and Creon in Statius’ Thebaid, and at last the fearsome Hannibal in Silius Italicus’ Punica. This part of the book looks at how tyrants’ fear, read through the lens of Stoic thought, similes, and intra- and intertextual models, reveals a narrative of figuratively ‘emasculated’ leadership and political impotence.
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