Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome

Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome
Author: Tim Stover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 019964408X

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This volume offers a new interpretation of Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem. Stover's approach to the text is both formalist and historicist as he seeks not only to elucidate Flaccus' dynamic appropriation of Lucan, but also to associate the Argonautica's formal gestures within a specific socio-political context.