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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781113803321

Autore

Bernstein Neil W. <1973->

Titolo

In the image of the ancestors : narratives of kinship in Flavian epic / / Neil W. Bernstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9303-7

1-4426-8833-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; ; 48

Disciplina

873/.01093552

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Kinship in literature

Families in literature

Rome History Flavians, 69-96

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Kinship as narrative -- 2. Valerius' Argonautica : kinship and power -- 3. Statius' Thebaid -- 4. Statius' Achilleid : nature and nurture -- 5. Silius' Punica : kinship and the state -- 6. From family to nation : descent and ethnicity in Flavian epic -- 7. The poetics of kinship.

Sommario/riassunto

Neil W. Bernstein argues that four Roman epic poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from earlier epic and examines these representations in the context of the social, political, and aesthetic changes of the early Imperial period.