In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic (PHOENIX SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Band 48).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69�96 AD): Valerius Flaccus�s Argonautica, Statius�s Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus�s Punica. NeilW Bernstein argues that these poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from those found in earlier epics, and examines these representations in the context of the social, political, and aesthetic changes of the early Imperial period. -- The author analyses various kinds of kinship, including biological relationships, elective relationships such as marriage and adoption, and the symbolic bonds of social and political allegiances, to illuminate the complex ways in which the Roman upper class asserted their status with or without noble lineage. A fresh and fascinating look at not only Roman poetry but the epic tradition itself, In the Image of the Ancestors is essential reading for classicists and literary historians. ISBN 9780802098795