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Subject(s)

• Latin literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ritual in literature [Browse]
• Closure (Rhetoric) [Browse]

Series

• Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series. [More in this series]
• Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.147 [More in this series]

Notes

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Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction: Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature
• Ritual Closure and Transcendence: Mobilising Ritual Theory for Flavian Epic
• Religious and Social Rituals as Motifs of Closure in Martial's Epigrams
• Closural Poetics in Martial, Epigrams 10
• Ritual and the Impossibility of Song in Statius' Siluae 5
• Sacrifice, Death, and Closure in Valerius' Argonautica Book 1
• Mansuri Compos Decoris? Scipio's Reditus and Exile in Punica 17
• Silius Italicus' False Rituals, Politics and Poetics: Mock Funerals and Triumphs as Closural Markers in the Punica
• Burning up, Melting down, Collapsing in: Fire Imagery, Narrative Articulation, Funerals, and the Incestuous Poetics of Statius' Thebaid
• Narrative and Psychological Closure through Ritual at Cyzicus and Circe's Island
• Compage soluta: Collapsing Universe and the Boundaries of Epic Poetry (Lucan, Silius, Statius and Claudian's De raptu)
• Epilogue
• List of Contributors
• Bibliography
• Thematic Index
• Index of Sources.

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ISBN

• 9783110770483
• 3110770482

OCLC

1390918252

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