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Flavian Poetry and Its Greek Past

By Antony Augoustakis

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004266488, 9789004266483
ISSN
0169-8958
Google Books ID
KXPAAgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2480194 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 366
Pages
xxii+453\477
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-12-30 16:49:22

Description

Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past breaks new ground by investigating the close interaction between Flavian poetry and Greek literary tradition and by evaluating the meaning of this affiliation in the socio-political and cultural context of the late first century CE. Authors examined include Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus. Their interaction with Greek literature is not just thematic or geographical: the Greek literary past is conceived as the poetic influence of a variety of authors, periods, and genres, such as Homer, the Cyclic tradition, Greek lyric poetry, Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry and aesthetics, and Greek historiography.

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