ITALIAN

Valerii Flacci Argonautica I: Commento

By Daniela Galli

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2007
ISBN
3110194813, 9783110194814
Language
italian
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2494553 bytes)
Series
Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde; 243
Edition
Reprint 2012 ed.
Pages
434\432
Time added
2023-02-07 16:06:53

Description

Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in scholarly interest in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica. Numerous analyses, discussions and commentaries on the poetical art of this "difficult" epic have appeared. This volume provides a philological commentary on the first book of the Argonautica. Special attention is paid to the sources upon which Valerius drew, and a comparison made with earlier literary tradition (in particular with the first book of Vergil's Aeneid, but also with Seneca's tragedies). In addition, the language, style and compositional techniques which were peculiar to epic during the Flavian period are studied.

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