Brill's companion to Valerius Flaccus /

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 trans...

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Other Authors: Heerink, Mark., Manuwald, Gesine.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online II, ISBN: 9789004284869.

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Call Number: PA6791.V5 B75 2014

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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 438 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-408), abstracts of articles, and indexes.
ISBN:9789004278653
ISSN:1872-3357
Access:Available to subscribing member institutions only.