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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.

Latin poetry --- Poésie latine --- Greek influences. --- Influence grecque --- Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, --- Statius, P. Papinius --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. --- Martial --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Greek influences --- Criticism and interpretation --- Latin poetry Greek influences. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Poésie latine --- Estacio --- Stace --- Statius, Papinius --- Statius, Publius Papinius --- Durand, Martial --- Martialis, Marcus Valerius --- Martialis, M. Valerius --- Mart︠s︡ial, Valeriĭ --- Marcial, Marco Valerio --- Marziale, Marco Valerio --- Marcjalis, Marek Waleriusz --- Martialis --- Marziale --- מארטיאליס --- Stat︠s︡iĭ, Publiĭ Papiniĭ --- Стаций, Публий Папиний --- Stazio --- Rome --- History --- Latin poetry - Greek influences --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. - Punica --- Martial - Criticism and interpretation

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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.

Epic poetry, Latin --- Poésie épique latine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius --- Statius, P. Papinius --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and Interpretation. --- Poésie épique latine

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Only recently have scholars turned their attention to Silius Italicus' Punica , a poem the reputation of which was eclipsed by the emergence of Virgil’s Aeneid as the canonical Latin epos of Augustan Rome. This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius' historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poem's context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity through Renaissance and modern philological criticism. This pioneering volume is the first comprehensive, collaborative study on the longest epic poem in Latin literature.

Epic poetry, Latin --- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- History, Military --- 1475597. --- Epic poetry, Latin. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- War and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Ancient & Classical. --- Poetry. --- Literature and the war. --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius, --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius. --- Punic War, 2nd (218-201 B.C.). --- Punica (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius). --- 265-30 B.C. --- Rome (Empire). --- Literature and war --- Literature --- Latin epic poetry --- Latin poetry --- Punic War, 2nd (218-201 B.C.) --- Punica (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius) --- Punicorum libri (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius) --- Silij Italici, poetae clarissimi, De Bello Punico libri septemdecim (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius) --- De Bello Punico libri septemdecim (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius) --- Sili Italici Punica (Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius) --- 265 - 30 B.C. --- Republic, Period as (Rome) --- Rome (Empire) --- Roman Republic --- Italy

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"The aim of this volume is to study Silius' poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as transitional segment between the beginnings of Roman literature in the Republican age (Naevius and Ennius) and Claudian's panegyrical epic in late antiquity, shedding light on its 'inclusiveness' and its peculiar, internal dialectic between antiquarian taste and problematic actualization. This is an innovative attempt to connect epic poems and authors belonging to different ages, to frame the development of the literary genre, according to its specific aims and interests throughout the centuries"

Epic poetry, Latin --- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. --- History in literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. --- Latin literature --- Rome Empire --- History and criticism --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology

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