Ritual and religion in Flavian epic [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Antony Augoustakis

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Disciplina: 873.0109
• Soggetto topico: Ritual; Religion
• Soggetto geografico: Rome History Flavians, 69-96
• Altri autori: AugoustakisAntony
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis -- ; Part I: Gods and humans -- With (a) God on our side: ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian epic / Marco Fucecchi -- Divine messages and human actions in the Argonautica / Gesine Manuwald -- Competing visions: prophecy, spectacle, and theatricality in Flavian epic / Helen Lovatt -- Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid / Anne Tuttle -- 'Considering the image of Thebes': celestial and poetic auspicy in the Thebaid / Eleni Manolaraki -- Malae preces and their articulation in the Thebaid / Ann Hubert -- Hymnic features in the Statian epic and the Siluae / Bruce Gibson -- Religion and power in the Thebaid / Federica Bessone -- ; Part 2: Death and ritual -- Chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns: the shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid / Ruth Parkes -- Wasted water: the failure of purification in the Thebaid / Nicholas Dee -- Patterns of darkness: chthonic illusion, gigantomachy, and sacrificial ritual in the Punica / R. Joy Littlewood -- Back out of hell: the virtual katabasis and initiation of Silius' Minucius / Robert Cowan -- Ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid / Neil W. Bernstein -- The death and funeral rites of Opheltes in the Thebaid / Randall Ganiban -- Epitaphic gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus / Martin T. Dinter -- ; Part 3: Ritual and the female -- Reconcilable differences: Anna Perenna and the battle of Cannae in the Punica / Raymond Marks -- Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual / Alison Keith -- Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid / Christopher Chinn -- Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in the Achilleid / Vassiliki Panoussi.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period. Drawing on various studies on religion and ritual and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores the poets' use of the relationship between gods and humans and religious activities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ritual and religion in Flavian epic
• ISBN: 1-299-45394-5; 0-19-162605-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202751503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno