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.
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.
Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, USA). He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (2010) and Plautus' Mercator .
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Contributors * Preface * Texts and Translations Used * List of Abbreviations * Introduction: Representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic * Part A: Gods and humans * 1: Marco Fucecchi: With (a) god on our side: Ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian Epic * 2: Gesine Manuwald: Divine messages and human actions in the Argonautica * 3: Helen Lovatt: Competing visions: Prophecy, spectacle, and theatricality in Flavian epic * 4: Anne Tuttle: Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid * 5: Eleni Manolaraki: Consider in the image of Thebes: Celestial and poetic auspicy in the Thebaid * 6: Ann Hubert: Malae preces and their articulation in the Thebaid * 7: Bruce Gibson: Hymnic features in Statian epic and the Siluae * 8: Federica Bessone: 8 Religion and Power in the Thebaid * Part B: Death and ritual * 9: Ruth Parkes: Chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns: The shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid * 10: Nicholas Dee: Wasted water: The failure of purification in the Thebaid * 11: R. Joy Littlewood: Patterns of darkness: Chthonic illusion, gigantomachy, and sacrificial ritual in the Punica * 12: Robert Cowan: Back out of hell: The virtual Katabasis and initiation of Silius Minucius * 13: Neil W. Bernstein: Ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid * 14: Randall Ganiban: The death and funeral rites of Opheltes in the Thebaid * 15: Martin T. Dinter: Epitaphic gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus * Part C: Ritual and the female * 16: Raymond Marks: Reconcilable differences: Anna Perenna in the battle of Cannae in the Punica * 17: Alison Keith: Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual * 18: Christopher Chinn: Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid * 19: Vassiliki Panoussi: Dancing in Scyros: Masculinity and young women s rituals in the Achilleid * Bibliography * Index Locorum * General Index
* List of Contributors * Preface * Texts and Translations Used * List of Abbreviations * Introduction: Representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic * Part A: Gods and humans * 1: Marco Fucecchi: With (a) god on our side: Ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian Epic * 2: Gesine Manuwald: Divine messages and human actions in the Argonautica * 3: Helen Lovatt: Competing visions: Prophecy, spectacle, and theatricality in Flavian epic * 4: Anne Tuttle: Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid * 5: Eleni Manolaraki: Consider in the image of Thebes: Celestial and poetic auspicy in the Thebaid * 6: Ann Hubert: Malae preces and their articulation in the Thebaid * 7: Bruce Gibson: Hymnic features in Statian epic and the Siluae * 8: Federica Bessone: 8 Religion and Power in the Thebaid * Part B: Death and ritual * 9: Ruth Parkes: Chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns: The shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid * 10: Nicholas Dee: Wasted water: The failure of purification in the Thebaid * 11: R. Joy Littlewood: Patterns of darkness: Chthonic illusion, gigantomachy, and sacrificial ritual in the Punica * 12: Robert Cowan: Back out of hell: The virtual Katabasis and initiation of Silius Minucius * 13: Neil W. Bernstein: Ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid * 14: Randall Ganiban: The death and funeral rites of Opheltes in the Thebaid * 15: Martin T. Dinter: Epitaphic gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus * Part C: Ritual and the female * 16: Raymond Marks: Reconcilable differences: Anna Perenna in the battle of Cannae in the Punica * 17: Alison Keith: Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual * 18: Christopher Chinn: Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid * 19: Vassiliki Panoussi: Dancing in Scyros: Masculinity and young women s rituals in the Achilleid * Bibliography * Index Locorum * General Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
