Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry

486 Pages·2019·4.216 MB·English

by  Neil Coffee, Christoper Forstall, Lavinia Galli Milić, Damien P. Nelis

Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry
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Volume 64
Intertextuality
in Flavian
Epic Poetry
Contemporary Approaches
Edited by
Neil Coffee, Chris Forstall, Lavinia Galli Milić and
Damien Nelis
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Contents
Acknowledgments  IX
Neil Coffee/Chris Forstall/Lavinia Galli Milić/Damien Nelis
Introduction  1
Helen Lovatt
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch:
Narrative Transition and Structural Intertextuality in Statius Thebaid 1  21
Tim Stover
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 3.598–725: Epic, History, and Intertextuality  43
Damien Nelis
Allusive Technique in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus  65
Raymond Marks
Searching for Ovid at Cannae:
A Contribution to the Reception of Ovid in Silius Italicus’ Punica  87
Michael Dewar
The Flavian Epics and the Neoterics  107
Federica Bessone
Allusive (Im-)Pertinence in Statius’ Epic  133
Antony Augoustakis
Collateral Damage? Todeskette in Flavian Epic  169
Mark Heerink
Replaying Dido:
Elegy and the Poetics of Inversion in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica  187
VI  Contents
Chiara Battistella/Lavinia Galli Milić
Foreshadowing Medea: Prolepsis and Intertextuality in Valerius Flaccus  205
François Ripoll
Ulysses as an Inter- (and Meta-)textual Hero in the Achilleid of Statius  243
Marco Fucecchi
Constructing (Super-)characters: The Case Study of Silius’ Hannibal  259
Gianpiero Rosati
The Redemption of the Monster, or: The ‘Evil Hero’ in Ancient Epic  283
Thomas Baier
Flavian Gods in Intertextual Perspective.
How Rulers Used Religious Practice as a Means of Communicating  305
Alison Keith
Palatine Apollo, Augustan Architectural Ecphrasis,
and Flavian Epic Intertextuality  323
Carole Newlands
Statius’ Post-Vesuvian Landscapes and Virgil’s Parthenope  349
Neil Bernstein
Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives on the Use of Poetic Tradition in Silius
Italicus’ Punica  373
Peter Heslin
Lemmatizing Latin and Quantifying the Achilleid  389
Neil Coffee/James Gawley
How Rare are the Words that Make Up Intertexts?
A Study in Latin and Greek Epic Poetry  409
Contents  VII
Stephen Hinds
Pre- and Post-digital Poetics of ‘Transliteralism’:
Some Greco-Roman Epic Incipits  421

List of Contributors  447
Index Locorum  451

Acknowledgments
This collection of essays arises from a research project on intertextuality in
Flavian epic poetry funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and
involving the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the University at Buffalo,
SUNY, USA. All the papers were first presented at a work-in-progress seminar
held at the Fondation Hardt, in Vandœuvres, on 28–30 May 2015. We would like
to thank all the staff at the Fondation Hardt for hosting the event and for all their
attentive kindness. Thanks also to those who helped fund the conference, the
Swiss National Science Foundation and the Faculty of Arts and the ‘Commission
administrative’ of the University of Geneva. We are very grateful to Valéry
Berlincourt, Collin Osborne, Matteo Romanello, and Yannick Zanetti for precious
help of various kinds. Warm thanks are also due to the staff at De Gruyter for all
their assistance, to the editors of the series Trends in Classics for accepting the
volume, to two anonymous readers for helpful advice, to Marco Michele Ac-
quafredda for all his encouragement and support, and to everyone involved for
their angelic patience. The final word of thanks must go to all the contributors: it
was both a pleasure and an education to have the opportunity to work closely
with such a generous, friendly, and talented group of scholars.
Neil Coffee, Chris Forstall, Lavinia Galli Milić, Damien Nelis

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