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This collection of papers responds to the question of whether a
ritual at the end of a text can offer resolution and order or
rather a complicated kind of closure. It reveals that ritual can
bring but also can thwart closure by alluding to new beginnings. A
ritual could be a perfect kind of ending but it hardly ever seems
to be. In Flavian literature this is even more apparent because of
the complicated political background under which these texts were
produced. Ancient religious practices in the closing sections of
Flavian texts help us create connections between endings and (new)
beginnings, order and disorder, binding and loosening, structure
and dissolution which reflects the structure of the Empire in
Flavian Rome. Overall, this volume offers a new tool for studying
literary endings through ritual, which promotes our understanding
of Flavian culture and politics as well as creating a new
perception of the use of religion and ritual in Flavian literature:
instead of giving a sense of closure, this volume argues that
ritual is a medium to increase complexity, to expose ritual actors
and to project a generic riskiness of ritual actors also onto the
epic actors who are acting before and mostly after a ritual scene.
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