Roman and Greek Imperial Epic, Heraklion 2005

Decleva Caizzi Decleva Caizzi, F. (), Antisthenis Fragmenta (testi e documenti per lo studio dell'antichita, XIII), Milan.

Phoenix, 2020

Colby Quarterly, 1994

2019

This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and constructions of heroism - topics that move through and beyond the story itself. The act of moving to and from 'home' - both a fixed point of spatial orientation and a transportable set of cultural values - thus represents a physical journey and an intellectual process. In exploring its many manifestations, the chapters in this collection reconceive the centrality of the epic journey across a wide variety of genres and historical contexts, from Homer to the moon.

Tradition und Erneuerung: Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier . Kramer, N. & Reitz, C. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, Vol. 285. p. 431 455 p. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde)., 2010

Classical Journal, 2020

A Companion to Latin Epic, 14–96 CE

The prominence and interrelations of brothers and other close companions in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica can be read against the epic's Stoic framework and its innovative and pervasive theme of civil discord. The Catalogue of Argonauts, which follows the order of Argonauts aboard the Argo, helps to illuminate the Argonauts' fraternal and social relations, but as the epic progresses, the piecemeal removal of Argonauts from the Argo causes a shift in their societal structure that echoes the cosmic dissolution perpetrated by their voyage. (N.B. This paper was written in 2012 and updated in 2014; some marginalia in the PDF indicate a few further changes, but it should be taken for a work of that time. Like some others, I am posting it so that it can see the light of day.)

M. Díaz de Cerio Díez, C. Cabrillana & C. Criado (eds.), Ancient Epic. Literary and Linguistic Essays, New Castle Upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-4438-7421-2., 2015

This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic. Set in the ancient world, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, the scope of interest here extends, for comparative purposes, to Vedic and Sanskrit poetry, as well as the Medieval epic. This collection of papers by classicists from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, embraces key themes in recent scholarship, such as the character of the hero, defined in terms of the conflict of power central to the epos, the metapoetic function of the bard as a literary reflection of epic style, and the manipulation of epic myth to fulfil new functions, such as retelling contemporary history and conveying mystic symbology. Topics rooted in archaic poetry, such as the reutilisation of the ogre character embodied in the Cyclops and the journey into the Underworld, are also explored in great detail. In all these studies, the intertextual nature of ancient writing is consistently addressed through discussions of the revisiting of Homeric poetry by authors such as the Greek tragedians, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Valerius Flaccus. The analysis of the heroic narrative offered in this volume includes both literary phenomena and the language of the epic itself; the reader is thus afforded the widest possible view of current critical perspectives in classical literature and linguistics. Such a comprehensive treatment of the most important genre in the ancient world grants the reader powerful insights into the way in which ancient literature was composed. This collection of studies, while making a substantial contribution to scholarship in this field, will also appeal to a varied academic readership, including researchers in classical literature and linguistics, as well as students of literary theory.