Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica - Image 1

£114.00

Oxford University Press Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

Name: Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 114.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

Price History & Forecast

Last 26 days • 26 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 26 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £114 (26 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £114 - £114

Price levels: 1 different prices over 26 days

Description

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an eclectic mix of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Empedoclean doctrine, on an ethical as well as a cosmological level) to construct an unstable cosmos that is, on multiple levels, both prone to dissolution and a breeding ground for cycles of civil war. The book argues that Valerius's intertextual practices can be read as a form of “cosmopoetics,” in that he uses language, images, and ideas from earlier literature to collectively build a picture of the cosmos's operation within his poem. At the study's heart and, it is argued, of Valerius's epic are the elements of air and fire, as aspects of nature, as personified mythological beings, and as active cosmic forces functioning in parallel across physical and conceptual strata (from the subterranean to the celestial; from the social to the macrocosmic). Looking to move beyond “pessimistic” and “recuperative” readings of the epic, Structuring the Cosmos reevaluates Valerius's engagement with the Flavian literary, philosophical, and historical climate, especially as a poet of civil war.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198850743
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2025
Listed Since: 12 May 2025

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Oxford University Press - Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome

The Stoic Cosmos: Conflagration, Cosmogony, and Recurrence in Early Stoicism

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on Flavian Poetry)

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception: Intersections of Myth, Science and History

Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies: An Ontological Exploration (Classical Literature and Society)

Valerii Flacci Argonautica I: Commento: 243 (Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde)

Cosmos in the Ancient World

Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism

Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics (Plutarchea Hypomnemata)

Cosmological Theories of Value: Science, Philosophy, and Meaning in Cosmic Evolution (Space and Society)

Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey (Cosmic Journey (with Infotrac, the Sky CD-ROM, and Webtutor)

Orphee, Les Argonautiques Orphiques: 310 (Collection Des Universites de France,)

Brill - The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch: 5

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautiques: Tome II: Chants V-VIII: 340 (Collection Des Universites de France,)

Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches

Anaximander: A Re-assessment (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs)

Proclus: Commentary on Timaeus, Book 5 (Procli Diadochi, In Platonis Timaeum Commentaria): Commentary on Timaeus, Procli Diadochi, in Platonis Timaeum ... Librum Primum (Oxford Classical Texts)

Nonlinear Wave and Plasma Structures in the Auroral and Subauroral Geospace

The Path of the Argo: Language, Imagery and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Cambridge Classical Studies)

Proclus: Commentary on Timaeus, Book 4 (Procli Diadochi, In Platonis Timaeum Commentaria Librum Primum): In Platonis Timaevm Commentaria (Oxford Classical Texts)

Seneca's Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the ^INatural Questions^R and Beyond

The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies

Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity (Heritage)