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Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores fire imagery in Statius’ Thebaid, its relationship to ritual and narrative articulation. Fire is often involved in Roman ritual, associated with catastrophic destruction alongside purification and release. The Thebaid’s complex... Read More about Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid.

Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality (2022)
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This chapter explores the methodological case for reading Greek Imperial epic alongside and in conjunction with Latin epic, by revisiting one of the best-known examples, the case of the story of Phaethon in Ovid and Nonnus. Since Knox’s article, the... Read More about Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality.

Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories (2022)
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A girl holds the key to the future of mankind: she has to choose between sacrificing herself and creating a new human race. In one version she is Iphigenia, in another Pandora. Mike Carey (or M. R. Carey) has now produced three versions of this story... Read More about Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories.

Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2 (2020)
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Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus (2019)
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This paper examines fides as a literary term, and asks how metaliterary faith fits in with morality, intertextuality and trust in the gods. It begins by examining the phrase nec vana fides in situations related to prophecy and belief in the gods, inc... Read More about Faith in Fate: Plot, Gods, and Metapoetic Morality in Valerius Flaccus.

Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again (2018)
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The visuality of Apollonius Argonautica is complex and fascinating, and important for understanding that of later Greek and Roman epic. The Argonautica features in The Epic Gaze as the epic that wouldn't, a refusenik of the epic genre, a counterexamp... Read More about Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again.

The beautiful face of war: refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry (2017)
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At Statius Thebaid 8.342-427 the second day of fighting begins, after Amphiaraus is swallowed up by the earth. Although this is far from being the beginning of the poem, not even the beginning of the fighting, Statius in this passage creates an image... Read More about The beautiful face of war: refreshing epic and reworking Homer in Flavian poetry.

Following after Valerius: Argonautic Imagery in the Thebaid (2015)
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Split-screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii (2013)
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