Flavian PoetryRuud R. Nauta, Johannes J.L Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam The reign of the Flavian emperors (69-96) saw the production of a large and varied body of Latin poetry: the epics of Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus and Statius, the Silvae of the same Statius, and the Epigrams of Martial. This poetry, long seen as derivative or decadent, is now increasingly appreciated for the daring originality of its responses both to the Latin literary tradition and to the contemporary Roman world. In the summer of 2003, the first-ever international conference on Flavian poetry, was held at Groningen, The Netherlands, bringing together leading scholars in the field from Europe, North America and Australasia. This volume offers a selection of the papers delivered on that occasion. |
Contents
1 Quintilian and the perception of the system of poetic genres in the Flavian age | 1 |
2 The recusatio in Flavian poetry | 21 |
The encomium as aestheticisation of power in Flavian poetry | 41 |
Looking out from the walls in Valerius Flaccus and Statius | 59 |
The rhetoric of inundation | 79 |
6 Silius Italicus and the Roman Sublime | 97 |
Linking the Saguntum and Cannae episodes in Silius Italicus Punica | 113 |
Wandering through Statius Theban past and the Thebaids early printed editions | 129 |
A literary and sociological approach | 245 |
15 Identity and irony Martials tenth book Horace and the tradition of Roman satire | 257 |
16 The unity of Martials Epigrams | 271 |
17 Contextualising Martials metres | 285 |
The illusion of poetic presence in Martials Xenia and Apophoreta | 299 |
19 Martial and the writer Canius Rufus | 315 |
The example of Martial 241 | 329 |
21 Martials modes of mourning Sepulchral epitaphs in the Epigrams | 349 |
Statius Amphiaraus and his literary antecedents | 147 |
10 The Silvae and epic | 163 |
11 Multiple imitation of epic models in the Silvae | 185 |
12 Statius Ovidian poetics and the tree of Atedius Melior Silvae 23 | 207 |
Statius Silv 43 | 223 |
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Common terms and phrases
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