@book{0ce3223066854499b5e755cd81c2a1d2,
title = "Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic",
abstract = "The nineteen essays in this volume consider the role of ritual representations and religions in the epic poems of the Flavian period (A.D. 69-96): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Silius Italicus' Punica, Statius' Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid. After the editor's thirteen-page introduction to representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic, the papers appear under three major headings: gods and humans (eight), death and ritual (seven), and ritual and the female (four). The contributors include M. Fucecchi on with (a) god on our side--ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian epic; G. Manuwald on divine message and human actions in the Argonautica; A. Tuttle on Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid; B. Gibson on hymnic features in Statian epic and the Silvae; F. Bessone on religion and power in the Thebaid; R.Parkes on chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns--the shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid; N. W. Bernstein on ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid; A. Keith on Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual; C. Chinn on Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid; and V. Panoussi on dancing in Scyros--masculinity and young women's ritual in the Achilleid.",
keywords = "religion, ritual, Flavian epic, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, Statius, gods, humans, prophecy, death, underworld, female",
editor = "A. Augoustakis",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644094.001.0001",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780199644094",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
}