Reading Fear in Flavian Epic Emotion, Power, and Stoicism
Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism by Dalida Agri
English | October 31, 2022 | ISBN: 0192859307 | True EPUB/PDF | 256 pages | 0.8/1.5 MB
This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention to the role and significance of fear, and cognate emotions, in the tyrant's psyche, and then goes on to explore how these emotions, in turn, shape the wider narratives. The focus is on the lengthy epics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.