Flavian Poetry and Its Greek Past

Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past examines the intimate literary affiliation between the Flavian poets (Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus) and their Greek literary predecessors, as well as its meaning within the socio-cultural context of the Flavian age.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Antony Augoustakis is Associate professor of Classics at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford) and Plautus' Mercator (Bryn Mawr). He has edited Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus (Leiden), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford), and co-edited the Blackwell Companion to Terence (with Ariana Traill). He is completing a commentary on Statius' Thebaid Book 8 (Oxford).

Contributors: Federica Bessone, Cristiano Castelletti, Robert Cowan, Marco Fucecchi, Daniela Galli, Jean-Michel Hulls, Simone Finkmann, Evangelos Karakasis, Darcy Krasne, R. Joy Littlewood, Ana Maria Lóio, Irene Mitousi, Margot Neger, Arianna Sacerdoti, Carey Seal, Pavlos Sfyroeras, Jörn Soerink, Michiel van der Keur, Marco van der Schuur.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Antonios Augoustakis (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9789004266483
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26648-3
• Seiten: 476
• Abmessung: 167 mm x 242 mm x 32 mm
• Gewicht: 859 g
• Serie: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft