Introduction : Representing ritual and religion in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis
Part I: Gods and humans
With (a) God on our side: ancient ritual practices and imagery in Flavian epic / Marco Fucecchi
Divine messages and human actions in the Argonautica / Gesine Manuwald
Competing visions: prophecy, spectacle, and theatricality in Flavian epic / Helen Lovatt
Argive augury and portents in the Thebaid / Anne Tuttle
'Considering the image of Thebes': celestial and poetic auspicy in the Thebaid / Eleni Manolaraki
Malae preces and their articulation in the Thebaid / Ann Hubert
Hymnic features in the Statian epic and the Siluae / Bruce Gibson
Religion and power in the Thebaid / Federica Bessone
Part 2: Death and ritual
Chthonic ingredients and thematic concerns: the shaping of the necromancy in the Thebaid / Ruth Parkes
Wasted water: the failure of purification in the Thebaid / Nicholas Dee
Patterns of darkness: chthonic illusion, gigantomachy, and sacrificial ritual in the Punica / R. Joy Littlewood
Back out of hell: the virtual katabasis and initiation of Silius' Minucius / Robert Cowan
Ritual murder and suicide in the Thebaid / Neil W. Bernstein
The death and funeral rites of Opheltes in the Thebaid / Randall Ganiban
Epitaphic gestures in Statius and Silius Italicus / Martin T. Dinter
Part 3: Ritual and the female
Reconcilable differences: Anna Perenna and the battle of Cannae in the Punica / Raymond Marks
Medusa, Python, and Poine in Argive religious ritual / Alison Keith
Orphic ritual and myth in the Thebaid / Christopher Chinn
Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in the Achilleid / Vassiliki Panoussi.
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Ritual and religion in Flavian epic. ISBN 9780199644094. Published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
