Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ANTONY AUGOUSTAKIS Introduction. Between Greece and Italy: Flavian Poetry and Its Traditions I. FLAVIAN LITERATURE AND GREEK INTERTEXTS 1. ARIANNA SACERDOTI Quis magna tuenti somnus? Scenes of Sleeplessness (and Intertextuality) in Flavian Poetry II. VALERIUS FLACCUS 2. DARCY KRASNE When the Argo Met the Argo: Poetic Destruction in Valerius' Argonautica 3. CRISTIANO CASTELLETTI Aratus and the Aratean Tradition in Valerius' Argonautica 4. SIMONE FINKMANN Collective Speech and Silence in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius 5. MARCO VAN DER SCHUUR Conflating Funerals: The Deaths of Idmon and Tiphys in Valerius' Argonautica 6. CAREY SEAL Civil War and the Apollonian Model in Valerius' Argonautica 7. DANIELA GALLI Dionysius Scytobrachion's Argonautica and Valerius 8. IRENE MITOUSI Valerius' Argonautica as an Ideological Epic of the Flavian era III. STATIUS 9. JORN SOERINK Tragic / Epic: Statius' Thebaid and Euripides' Hypsipyle 10. JEAN-MICHEL HULLS Greek Author, Greek Past: Statius, Athens, and the Tragic Self 11. FEDERICA BESSONE Polis, Court, Empire: Greek Culture, Roman Society, and the System of Genres in Statius' poetry 12. PAVLOS SFYROERAS Like Purple on Ivory: A Homeric Simile in Statius' Achilleid IV. SILIUS ITALICUS 13. EVANGELOS KARAKASIS Homeric Receptions in Flavian Epic: Intertextual Characterization in Punica 7 14. R. JOY LITTLEWOOD Loyalty and the Lyre: Constructions of Fides in Hannibal's Capuan Banquets 15. MICHIEL VAN DER KEUR meruit deus esse uideri: Silius' Homer in Homer's Punica 13 16. MARCO FUCECCHI The Philosophy of Power: Greek Literary Tradition and Silius' On Kingship V. MARTIAL 17. MARGOT NEGER 'Graece numquid' ait 'poeta nescis?' Martial and the Greek Epigrammatic Tradition 18. ROBERT COWAN Fingering Cestos: Martial's Catullus' Callimachus 19. ANA MARIA LOIO Inheriting Speech: Talking Books Come To Flavian Rome BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERAL INDEX INDEX LOCORUM