C. Valerius Flaccus Argonautica Book II
Author: Harm Marien Poortvliet
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
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Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Book 1
Author: Caius Valerius Flaccus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-17
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0199219494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It discusses, inter alia, the limited evidence for Valerius' life; the main features of his often difficult poetic language; the handling of the Argonautic myth in literature prior to Valerius; his innovative treatment of the inherited material; and his self-positioning within the broader literary tradition, particularly his sophisticated adaptation of formal and thematic elements from his two principal poetic models, Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica and Virgil's Aeneid. While the commentary is written for readers with some competence in Latin, the introduction, and the facing English translation, are thoroughly accessible to non-Latinate readers with an interest in Roman literature and in the ancient epic tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Book 1
Author: Andrew Zissos
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-07-17
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0191527491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A text (with apparatus criticus), translation, and commentary, with introduction, of the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, an unfinished Roman epic extending to eight books and several thousand lines, written in the Flavian period (69-96 CE). The commentary addresses both textual and semantic matters and broader questions of stylistics, poetics, thematics, and cultural context. Particularly close attention is paid to Valerius' choice of diction, his sophisticated use of figures and tropes, his often sly erudition, the recurring and strategic resort to subtle intertextual gestures, and, where appropriate, the reception of his work in later authors. The substantial introduction provides an overview of the poet and his poem.
Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III
Author: Valerius Flaccus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1107037328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first commentary in English on a book of this Flavian epic tailored to the needs of graduate and undergraduate students.
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book V
Author: H.J.W. Wijsman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9004329846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book contains a commentary on Book V of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus, paying attention to linguistic, philological and literary aspects. Line by line the words and phrases chosen, sources used and literary models are treated. The last commentary on all eight books of the Argonautica appeared a century ago (Langen 1896), so there is ample room to apply new views in Latin linguistics and concepts of literature. A small number of textual variants is supported.
Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7
Author: P. J. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780198767190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best known of ancient Greek myths and has captivated people for over two and a half thousand years. Focusing on Medea's attempts to resist her love for Jason, Book 7 of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica presents one of the most attractive and engaging episodes in all of Greco-Roman epic: the key moment when Jason and Medea fall in love and when Jason, with Medea's help, yokes the king's fire-breathing bulls, sows the dragon's teeth, and compels the earthborn men to destroy themselves. Although versions of the story of the Argo's journey from Greece to the Black Sea had been told by many earlier poets, this Roman account of the myth differs from its predecessors in important ways. First, Valerius presents the Argo as the first ship and the voyage as a decisive turning point in human history: the Argo's breaking down of natural barriers will lead to interchange between human communities and to a sequence of empires, culminating of course in that of the Romans. Second, Valerius constantly foreshadows other parts of Medea's myth, most notably the explosion of violence in Corinth well known to Valerius' audience and to us from the Medea tragedies of Euripides and Seneca. Third, and most important, Valerius concentrates attention on the inner workings of Medea's mind as she fights against the combined efforts of two goddesses who ultimately compel her to betray her father and help Jason to win the golden fleece. This new edition of Argonautica 7 offers the first detailed commentary on this book of the poem in English, as well as a substantial introduction intended to be as accessible to as many readers as possible, a new Latin text, and a facing-page prose translation. The commentary is primarily literary, emphasizing Valerius' engagement with the epic tradition and with earlier treatments of the Medea story, as well as the elegance and power of his poetry, and is intended to be of use to scholars and students at all levels of study
A Study of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus
Author: Walter Coventry Summers
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13:
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Author: Henri J.W. Wijsman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-09-18
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9004351159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In spite of an increased interest over the last ten years in the 1st century AD Roman poet Valerius Flaccus, involving the production of several commentaries, part of his work Argonautica was still lacking a modern commentary. This book gives a full philological and literary commentary of the turbulent book VI of the Argonautica. The Silver Latin author's peculiar phraseology and choice of words is highlighted. Where possible the poem is interpreted in the context of the other Silver Latin epic poets.
Structures of Epic Poetry
Author: Christiane Reitz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 2756
ISBN-13: 3110492598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
Author: Debra Hershkowitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780198150985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Valerius Flaccus' unfinished and unjustly neglected epic recounting the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece and the early stages of the doomed love affair of Jason and Medea has been relegated to the outer fringes of classical scholarship for many years. A full-length study devoted to the Argonautica has not been published in English for over 100 years. This book seeks to address this balance. Dr. Hershkowitz aims to provide readers who have not yet encountered Valerius Flaccus' work with a general introduction to this multi-faceted epic poem. At the same time the author offers those already familiar with the Argonautica an in-depth re-evaluation of the work, contextualizing it within both an historical and literary framework, focusing in particular on its intertextual relationship with Apollonius' Argonautica and Vergil's Aeneid.
