Animal Encounters in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica /

Animal Encounters in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica /

This first in-depth study of Valerius Flaccus' animals reveals their role in his poetic programme and the manifold ways in which he establishes their subjectivity. In one encounter, a trapped bird becomes a tragic victim, while the trapper is dehumanized. Elsewhere there are touching portrayals...

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Main Author: Mackay, Anne Elyse Tuttle (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 460.

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Latin literature.
Literature > Study and teaching.
Literature > Minority authors > Study and teaching.

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Call Number: PA6029.P64

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • General Introduction
  • 1 Background 1: Discussions in Valerian Scholarship
  • 2 Background 2: The Literary & Cultural Contexts of Valerius' Animals
  • 3 Methodology
  • 1 Empathy: Animal Experience in Simile
  • 1 Bulls & Herds: Safety in Numbers
  • 2 The Animal Mother: Gender & Generic Boundaries
  • 3 Behaviour Patterns: Life Cycles & Phases
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Relating: Human/Animal Interactions
  • 1 Human Dominion
  • 2 Human & Animal Trans-Species Collaboration
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Identity: Human Appropriation of Animal Skins
  • 1 Heroic Identification
  • 2 (Re)emergence of the Animal
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Presence: Animal Emissaries & Cult Companions
  • 1 Sight: Jupiter's Birds
  • 2 Sound: The Animal Voice
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Serpentine: Meditation on the Monstrous
  • 1 Snaky Monsters & the New World Order
  • 2 Snakes on Cyzicus, Arg. 3.456-458
  • 3 Medea & Her draco
  • Conclusion
  • General Conclusion
  • Appendix: Indices of Animal & Related References in Valerius Flaccus.
  • Bibliography
  • Index.