Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus
Title | Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Heerink |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 2015-03-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004278656 |
Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica (1st century CE). A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights. Topics covered include textual transmission, language, poetic techniques, main themes, characters, relationship to intertexts and reception. This will be a standard point of departure for anyone interested in Valerius Flaccus or Flavian epic more generally. Contributors are: Antony Augoustakis, Michael Barich, Neil Bernstein, Emma Buckley, Cristiano Castelletti, James Clauss, Robert Cowan, Peter Davis, Alain Deremetz, Attila Ferenczi, Marco Fucecchi, Randall Ganiban, Mark Heerink, Alison Keith, Helen Lovatt, Gesine Manuwald, Ruth Parkes, Tim Stover, Ruth Taylor-Briggs, and Andrew Zissos.
Lucan and Flavian Epic
Title | Lucan and Flavian Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Gervais |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 131 |
Release | 2023-12-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004690700 |
Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all been the subject of a remarkable increase in scholarly attention and appreciation. Lucan and Flavian epic characterizes and historicizes that moment, showing how the qualities of the poems and the histories of their receptions have brought about the kind of analysis and attention they are now receiving. Serving both experienced scholars of the poems and students interested in them for the first time, this book offers a new perspective on current and future directions in scholarship.
Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic
Title | Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Andriana Domouzi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2024-05-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350260711 |
This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic, including their reception in later literature and culture. Contributors look at how Hesiod, Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Moschus, Ovid and Valerius Flaccus crafted the first literary concepts concerned with automata and the quest for artificial life, as well as technological intervention improving human life. Parts one and two consider, respectively, archaic Greek, and Hellenistic and Roman, epics. Contributors explore the representations of Pandora in Hesiod, and Homeric automata such as Hephaestus' wheeled tripods, the Phaeacian king Alcinous' golden and silver guard dogs, and even the Trojan Horse. Later examples cover Artificial Intelligence and automation (including Talos) in the Argonautica of Apollonius and Valerius Flaccus, and Pygmalion's ivory woman in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Part three underlines how these concepts benefit from analysis of the ekphrasis device, within which they often feature. These chapters investigate the cyborg potential of the epic hero and the literary implications of ancient technology. Moving into contemporary examples, the final chapters consider the reception of ancient literary Artificial Intelligence in contemporary film and literature, such as the Czech science-fiction epic Starvoyage, or Small Cosmic Odyssey by Jan Kr?esadlo (1995) and the British science-fiction novel The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett (2004).
Brill's Companion to Statius
Title | Brill's Companion to Statius PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Dominik |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 722 |
Release | 2015-03-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004284702 |
Brill’s Companion to Statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important Roman poet of the Flavian period. Thirty-four newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to Statius, discuss the fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. All of his works are considered: the Thebaid, his longest extant epic; the Achilleid, his unfinished epic; and the Silvae, his collected short poetry. Particular themes explored include the social, cultural, and political issues surrounding his poetry; his controversial aesthetic; the influence of his predecessors upon his poetry; and the scholarly and literary reception of his poetry in subsequent ages to the present.
Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic
Title | Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C Simms |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2018-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004360921 |
Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores the long tradition of continuing Greek and Roman epics from Homer and the epic cycle to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.
Family in Flavian Epic
Title | Family in Flavian Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Nikoletta Manioti |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2016-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004324666 |
Family in Flavian Epic offers an exploration of family bonds depicted in the epics of Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus, and examines their links to the epic tradition and Flavian Rome.
Off the Beaten Path
Title | Off the Beaten Path PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Marks |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2024-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3111403645 |
In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus not only recounts a voyage, that of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, but takes a journey himself, a poetic one, during which he explores new, unconventional paths in the epic genre. The present volume examines this aspect of Valerius’ poetic program, locating its primary source of inspiration in the works of Ovid, especially his epic, the Metamorphoses, and his exile poetry. It argues that the Metamorphoses influences not only discrete – often digressive – episodes in the Argonautica, but Valerius’ view of his poem as a “secondary” form of epic, which broadly deviates from the generic norms of his day. Echoes of the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto complement this approach by identifying many of Valerius’ characters, who are similarly displaced to the edges of the civilized world, with the exiled Ovid and even Valerius himself, who, at the end of the epic, finds his own “ship”, the epic itself, stranded roughly where Ovid lived out his days in exile. From this study, readers will gain a greater appreciation for the importance of Ovid to Valerius’ conception and execution of his epic program and one of its central themes, the journey.