Roman and Greek Imperial Epic

Achaeans Achilleid Achilles Adrastus Aeneid allusion Apollonian Apollonius Rhodius Argo Argonauts Athena Barchiesi biblical brother Cadmus Cambridge capture of Troy Centaurs Chiron Christian classical Colchians context cosmogony culture Deiphobus departure Dracontius epic poet episode Eteocles Fama female fleece gender genre Georgics Gerlaud goddess Greece Greek Helen hero Hesiod Homer Hypsipyle Iliad imitation intertextual Jason Juno Juno’s Jupiter Jupiter’s Juvenal Juvenal's Lapiths Latin Lemnian Lemnos lines literary lyre masculinity Medea Mousaios Muses myth mythological narrative Nelis Nonnus Odysseus Oedipus Orpheus Orphic Argonautica Ovid’s Oxford Pandora parallels Paschalis passage poem poet’s poetic poetry Polynices pregnant Horse proem Quintus reading role Roman Rome satire scene Silius Italicus sings song of Orpheus Stat Statius Stella story Styrus tell Teuthras Theb Thebaid theogony tradition Triphiodorus Trojan twin Tydeus Typhoeus Valerius Flaccus Vian Virgil Virgilian voice women Wooden Horse Zeus δὲ καὶ μὲν