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 ri

This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closu

This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or rather a complicated kind of closu

Family in Flavian Epic examines the treatment of family bonds in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus’ Punic

Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus have all been the subj