04651nam 2200601Ia 450 99619752710331620230802005341.01-280-87632-897866137176340-19-162631-7(CKB)2550000000104617(EBL)3054697(OCoLC)922971284(SSID)ssj0000737267(PQKBManifestationID)11439993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737267(PQKBWorkID)10782653(PQKB)10691682(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092386(MiAaPQ)EBC3054697(EXLCZ)99255000000010461720120714d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEpic and empire in vespasianic Rome[electronic resource] a new reading of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica /Tim StoverOxford Oxford University Press20121 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-174195-7 0-19-964408-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Date of the Argonautica""; ""Introduction""; ""The external evidence""; ""The internal evidence""; ""Conclusion""; ""2. The Inauguration of the �Argonautic Moment�""; ""Introduction""; ""The Jovian programme""; ""The �final day� in Vergil and Valerius""; ""The �final day� in Lucan""; ""The future is not what it used to be""; ""The poetics and politics of collective expansion""; ""Jupiter and the establishment of exempla virtutis""; ""Vespasian�s Argonautic achievements""""A tale of two emperors: Lucan�s Nero and Valerius� Vespasian""""Conclusion""; ""3. The Sea Storm and Political Allegory""; ""Introduction""; ""Gigantomachy and imperial ideology""; ""Boreas, Aeolus, and the gigantomachic storm""; ""A political storm""; ""The Saturnian alternative""; ""The issue of the Argonauts� gigantomachic impiety""; ""Lucan�s Caesar, the gigantomachic mariner""; ""The Argonauts� un-Caesarian humility""; ""Jason�s post-storm prayer""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Gigantomachy and Civil War in Cyzicus""; ""Introduction""; ""Moralizing civil war""""The sameness of the Greeks and Phrygians""""The strength of the Greek and Phrygian alliance""; ""The terminology of civil war""; ""Gigantomachy in Cyzicus""; ""Might they be Giants? Part I: Cyzicus""; ""Might they be Giants? Part II: The Doliones""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix: Gigantomachy and civil war in Colchis""; ""5. The Vespasianic Vates""; ""Introduction""; ""Vatic activity in Lucan and Valerius: Some preliminaries""; ""Rehabilitating the vates""; ""Lucan�s Pythia""; ""The nature of the Valerian vates""; ""Valerius� Phineus""; ""Mopsus in Cyzicus: Valerius� �ideal singer�""""Conclusion""""6. Recuperating the Hero: Medea and the Issue of Jason�s Virtus""; ""Introduction""; ""Virtus and aristeia: Some preliminaries""; ""Arms and the woman""; ""The staging of the encounter""; ""The confrontation, part I: The Ovidian element""; ""The confrontation, part II: The astral element""; ""Sirius� ambivalent poetic effects""; ""The teichoscopia and Jason�s aristeia""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index of passages""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""H""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""General index""; ""A""; ""B""""C""""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""This volume offers a new interpretation of Flaccus' 'Argonautica', a Latin epic poem. Stover's approach to the text is both formalist and historicist as he seeks not only to elucidate Flaccus' dynamic appropriation of Lucan, but also to associate the 'Argonautica's formal gestures within a specific socio-political context.Epic poetry, LatinHistory and criticismRomeHistoryVespasian, 69-79RomeHistoryFlavians, 69-96Epic poetry, LatinHistory and criticism.873.01Stover Tim1006520MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996197527103316Epic and empire in vespasianic Rome2316465UNISA