Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition

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CLAUDIAN AND THE ROMAN EPIC TRADITION
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
THE POET AND HIS AUDIENCE
INTERTEXTUALITY
CHAPTER 1 Panegyric-epic
THE ART OF PRAISING
CLAUDIAN’S DEBT TO RHETORIC
VIRGIL AND PANEGYRIC-EPIC
CHAPTER 2 Roman epic
NARRATIVE AND STRUCTURE
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF EPIC
REGES ET PROELIA
THE DIVINE MACHINERY
CLAUDIAN’S CARMEN PERPETUUM
PLAYING WITH GENRE
CHAPTER 3 Defining the empire
THE DIVIDED BROTHERS
THE AMPUTATION OF THE EAST
THE SINGLE RULER
FILIUS DEGENER, FILIUS DIGNUS
CHAPTER 4 Cycles of time
BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS: THE CIRCULARITY OF TIME
CHAPTER 5 Enemies of Roman order
CONTINUITY AND INTERRUPTION: CONCORDIA AND FUROR
POSSESSED BY FUROR: IN RUFINUM
THE COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
ALARIC: PHAËTHON AND THE GIANTS
ALARIC: EPIC POTENTIAL AND EPIC PARODY
GILDO, ENEMY THROUGH THE AGES
GILDO TYRANNUS
GILDO AND THE SHADOW OF LUCAN
GILDO: THE COSMIC DIMENSION
GILDO: THE SATIRIC TARGET
CLOSURE?
CHAPTER 6 The golden age I
THE ORIGINS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
IMPERIAL PROPAGANDA AND THE GOLDEN AGE: CLAUDIAN AND FLATTERY
AURI FAMES, BELLI RABIES: THE TRUE GOLDEN AGE OF AUGUSTUS?
THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE GEORGICS
From Saturn to Jupiter: sacrifice and the individual
Laudes Italiae: the golden age in Italy
Cognoscere: the key to the golden age
Labor and ars
CHAPTER 7 The golden age II
SACRIFICE: MALLIUS THEODORUS
RUFINUS: THE THREAT
STILICHO: LABOR AND WAR
References
Index locorum
General Index