Trending Bestseller

Flavian Epic

No reviews yet Write a Review
Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field.
Hardback
544 Pages
16-June-2016
$251.75
Ships in 3-5 business days

Delivery estimate

Hurry up! Current stock:
Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field. A wide range of topics receive coverage, and analysis and interpretation of individual poems are integrated throughout. The volume demonstrates that by engaging in a complex and challenging intertextual dialogue with their literary predecessors, the innovative epics of the Flavian poets respond to contemporary needs, expressing overt praise, or covert anxiety, towards imperial rule and the empire.
Product Details
ISBN-13
9780199650668
Publisher
Oxford University Press UK
Published
16-June-2016
Format
Hardback
Pages
544

This product hasn't received any reviews yet. Be the first to review this product!

$251.75
Ships in 3-5 business days

Delivery estimate

Hurry up! Current stock:

Flavian Epic

$251.75

Description

Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field. A wide range of topics receive coverage, and analysis and interpretation of individual poems are integrated throughout. The volume demonstrates that by engaging in a complex and challenging intertextual dialogue with their literary predecessors, the innovative epics of the Flavian poets respond to contemporary needs, expressing overt praise, or covert anxiety, towards imperial rule and the empire.