Abstract
These days Flavian epic and intertextuality go together like toast and butter, or a persistent cough and fever, depending on your taste. Either way, Intertextuality in Flavian Epic. Contemporary Approaches is not perhaps the most startling of titles. But the book within is an impressive collection, its four editors (Neil Coffee, Chris Forstall, Lavinia Galli Milić, and Damien Nelis) leading a star cast of Flavians in a wide-ranging and stimulating set of chapters.
Highlights
There’s no particular angle (‘Flavian poets and prose/Greek epic/politics etc.’), except that digital humanities get a special place
The digital theme is processed in a group of chapters by Neil Bernstein, Peter Heslin, Neil Coffee with his student James Gawley, and Stephen Hinds
Sections address in turn ‘Transformations’ into, in, and of the Metamorphoses, which is to say, (i) Ovid and his Greek predecessors; (ii) five readings, three by episode (Deucalion and Pyrrha, Arethusa, Byblis), one on gender, and one identifying a telestich NASO as Cupid fires his arrow in Met. 1.422–5 (Mathias Hanses); and (iii) four chapters on reception, including Philip Hardie on Prudentius, Dante, and Milton
Summary
There’s no particular angle (‘Flavian poets and prose/Greek epic/politics etc.’), except that digital humanities get a special place.
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