Machine generated contents note: Flavian epic interactions / Astrid Voigt -- pt. I Flavian Epic Politics -- The Flavian Punica? / Marcus Wilson -- Imperial encomia in Flavian epic / John Penwill -- Recusatio in Flavian epic poetry Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (1.7--21) and Statius' Thebaid (1.17--33) / Daniela Galli -- Praise in Flavian epic / Bruce Gibson -- Critical interactions Constructing heroic models and imperial ideology in Flavian epic / Federica Bessone -- Looking for the Giants Mythological imagery and discourse on power in Flavian epic / Marco Fucecchi -- pt. II Flavian Epic Themes and Techniques -- Flavian epic and the sublime / Philip Hardie -- Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem Declamation and Flavian epic / Neil W. Bernstein -- Teichoskopia and katabasis The poetics of spectatorship in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis -- Slavery in Flavian epic / Martin T. Dinter -- The contradictions of Valerius' and Statius' Jupiter Power and "eakness of the supreme god in the epic and tragic tradition / Cecilia Criado -- Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic Valerius Flaccus and Statius / Stephen Harrison -- Does mass matter? The epic catalogue of troops as narrative and metapoetic device / Christiane Reitz -- pt. III Flavian Epic Intertextuality -- Traces of the Argo Statius' Achilleid 1 and Valerius' Argonautica 1--2 / Daniel Kozak -- Silius versus Valerius Orpheus in the Punica and the Argonautica / Mark Heerink -- Invida fata piis? Exploring the significance of Silius' divergence from the night raids of Virgil and Statius / Joy Littlewood -- The Thebaid and the fall of Saguntum in Punica 2 / Raymond Marks -- Beginning at the end Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes / Anke Walter -- Of corpses, carnivores and Cecropian pyres Funeral rites in Silius and Statius / Michiel van der Keur -- `"ell stored "ith subtle "iles' Pyrene, Psamathe and the Flavian art of interaction / Jean-Michel Hulls -- Statius, Silius Italicus and the snake pit of intertextuality / Jorn Soerink -- Flaminius' failure? Intertextual characterization in Silius Italicus and Statius / Pramit Chaudhuri.
