Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome offers a new interpretation of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem written during the reign of the emperor Vespasian (70-79 AD). Recounting the famous
Although repetition is found in all ancient literary genres, it is especially pervasive in epic poetry. Ovid’sMetamorphoses exploits this dimension of the epic genre to such an extent that past critic
