TY - BOOK ID - 4894261 TI - Flaviah epic AU - Augoustakis, Antony AU - Oxford University Press PY - 2016 SN - 9780199650668 0199650667 PB - Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Latin KW - Poésie épique latine KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, KW - Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius KW - Statius, P. Papinius KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Criticism and Interpretation. KW - Poésie épique latine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4894261 AB - The epics of the three Flavian poets-Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus-have, in recent times, attracted the attention of scholars, who have re-evaluated the particular merits of Flavian poetry as far more than imitation of the traditional norms and patterns. Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field. A wide range of topics receive coverage, and analysis and interpretation of individual poems are integrated throughout. The plurality of the critical voices included in the volume presents a much-needed variety of approaches, which are used to tackle questions of intertextuality, gender, poetics, and the social and political context of the period. In doing so, the volume demonstrates that by engaging in a complex and challenging intertextual dialogue with their literary predecessors, the innovative epics of the Flavian poets respond to contemporary needs, expressing overt praise, or covert anxiety, towards imperial rule and the empire. ER -