 | In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic Subjects: Valerius Flaccus Gaius 1st cent; Statius P. Papinius (Publius Papinius); Silius Italicus Tiberius Catius; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Kinship in literature; Family in literature; Rome -- History -- Flavians 69–96; Neil W. Bernstein argues that four Roman epic poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from earlier epic and examines these representations in the context of the social, political, and aesthetic changes of the early Imperial period. Bernstein Neil : Neil W. Bernstein is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University. |
