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Abused Bodies in Roman Epic (Hardcover)
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Abused Bodies in Roman Epic (Hardcover)
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Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian
and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies.
Sometimes corpses take centre-stage in grand funerals; sometimes,
disturbingly, they are objects of physical violence or malign
neglect. In this book - the first full-length examination of corpse
mistreatment in epic - Andrew M. McClellan explores the motif of
post mortem abuse in Greco-Roman epic, especially the Latin poems
of early imperial Rome: Lucan's Bellum ciuile, Valerius Flaccus'
Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius' Punica. He counters the
pervasive tendency to view epic violence from the perspective of
the abuser by shifting the focus to the object of abuse. In
signalling the corpse as a critical 'character' and not simply a
by-product of war, he offers a fundamental re-evaluation of
violence and warfare in Latin epic, and through close study of
intertextualities indicates the distinctive features of each
author's treatment of the dead.
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