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04437aam a2200517 i 4500 001 A94C0E4A332F11E49E51C4E1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140903010030 008 140306s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014008884 020 $a 0199993386 (hardback : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780199993383 (hardback : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)867613398 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d CDX $d DEBBG $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PA6047 $b .C48 2014 082 00 $a 871/.0109 $2 23 084 $a REL033000 $a LCO003000 $a REL033000 $2 bisacsh 084 $a FT 14000 $2 rvk 100 1 $a Chaudhuri, Pramit $c (Classicist), $e author. 245 14 $a The war with god : $b theomachy in Roman imperial poetry / $c Pramit Chaudhuri. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, USA, $c 2014. 300 $a xiv, 386 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Epic and tragedy, from Homer's Achilles and Euripides' Pentheus to Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Milton's Satan, are filled with characters challenging and warring against the gods. Nowhere is the theme of theomachy more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in the poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid's Metamorphoses at the beginning of the century to Statius' Thebaid near its end. This book--the first full-length study of human-divine conflict in Roman literature-- asks why the war against god was so important to the poets of the first century AD and how this understudied period of literary history influenced a larger tradition in Western literature. Drawing on a variety of contexts-- politics, religion, philosophy, and aesthetics--Pramit Chaudhuri argues for the fundamental importance of battles between humans and gods in representing the Roman world. A cast of tyrants, emperors, rebels, iconoclasts, philosophers, and ambitious poets brings to life some of the most extraordinary artistic products of classical antiquity. Based on close readings of the major extant epics and selected tragedies, the book replaces a traditionally Aeneid-centric view of imperial epic with a richer dialogue between Greek and Roman texts, contemporary authors, and diverse genres. The renewed sense of a tradition reveals how the conflicts these works represent constitute a distinctive theology informed by other discourses yet peculiar to epic and tragedy. Beginning with the Greek background and ending with a look ahead to developments in the Renaissance, this book charts the history of a theme that would find its richest expression in a time when men became gods and impiety threatened the very order of the world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356), chronology, and indexes. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Theomachy in Greek Epic and Tragedy -- 2. The Origins of Roman Theomachy: Lucretius and Vergil -- 3. Theomachy as Test in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- 4. Deification and Theomachy in Seneca's Hercules Furens -- 5. Theomachy in Historical Epic: Disenchantment and Remystification in Lucan's Bellum Civile -- 6. Paradigms of Theomachy in Flavian Epic: Homer, Intertextuality, and the Struggle for Identity -- 7. The War of the Worlds: Hannibal as Theomach in Silius Italicus' Punica -- 8. Theomachy and the Limits of Epic: Capaneus in Statius' Thebaid -- 9. The Politics of Theomachy -- Epilogue. 650 0 $a Latin poetry $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Theology in literature. 650 0 $a Theomachy. 650 0 $a Good and evil in literature. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / History. $2 bisacsh 650 4 $a HISTORY / Ancient / Rome / bisacsh. 650 4 $a LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical et Medieval / bisacsh. 650 4 $a RELIGION / History / bisacsh. 650 7 $a Latein. $0 (DE-588)4114364-4 $2 gnd 650 7 $a TragoÌdie. $0 (DE-588)4060591-7 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Epos. $0 (DE-588)4015065-3 $2 gnd 650 7 $a GoÌtter. $0 (DE-588)4021469-2 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Mensch. $0 (DE-588)4038639-9 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Rebellion. $0 (DE-588)4311823-9 $2 gnd 650 7 $a RivalitaÌt. $0 (DE-588)4178251-3 $2 gnd 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017024700.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A94C0E4A332F11E49E51C4E1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search