Inconsistency in Flavian Epic

Attila Ferenczi · Dániel Kozák · Andrew Zissos

2025年1月 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of inconsistency in the three major Latin epics of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE), Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Statius’ Thebaid and Silius Italicus’ Punica. The Introduction provides a detailed theoretical foundation that accounts for inconsistency both as an objective effect inherent in narrative content and as a more subjective one involving style and subject matter. It is followed by eight chapters by leading international experts on the three poems in question. The rich analyses of these contributors demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device deployed by the Flavian epicists to achieve specific effects, so that its careful study yields precious insights into their respective artistic, thematic and ideological agendas.

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Attila Ferenczi is Professor of Latin Language and Literature in the Department of Latin, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. His research focuses on the Roman epic tradition and the literature of the Augustan and Flavian Ages. He has published on Valerius Flaccus, Virgil, Horace and Seneca.

Dániel Kozák is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Latin, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. His main area of interest is Flavian epic, especially Statius’ Achilleid and Silius Italicus’ Punica; he is also doing research on the commentary tradition of Virgil’s Aeneid.

Andrew Zissos is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine, US. He is the author of numerous articles on Roman epic, along with a commentary on Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (2008). He is editor of A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome (2016) and several other volumes.