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  title info:
    title: Structuring the cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica
  name:
    name part: Krasne, Darcy A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
  abstract: "This book explores motifs of cosmology and meteorology in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, demonstrating how Valerius draws eclectically on philosophical theories to construct an unstable cosmos prone to dissolution and internal conflict. The coherence of Valerius's philosophical engagement depends on the centrality he affords the elements of air and fire, meteorology's driving forces, which serve as personified mythological beings and active cosmic forces on a layered system of metaphor and analogy. The book is structured in rough accordance with the levels of Valerius's meteorological metaphor, beginning with the subterrestrial and ascending toward the celestial. It looks first at literal, mythologized, and intertextual manifestations of volcanic and seismic activity, then demonstrates how Valerius's relationship with didactic poetry intrudes into and shapes his poem, in both the viewpoints of his characters and his epic's pervasive engagement with the Lucretian plague. It centers the Lemnos episode as an early illustration of the epic's themes, showing how volcanism and plague are not just evident in but intrinsic to the episode's construction and demonstrating the crucial importance of Empedocles' philosophy for the episode. Returning to representations of plague in the epic, it looks at the influence of the Dogstar Sirius and at metaphorical and intertextual manifestations of the literary plague's traditional symptoms, highlighting how the epic's meteorological dimension interacts with its eschatological concerns. Finally, it examines the importance of celestial fires in the epic, emphasizing the influence of Manilius's Astronomica, and concludes with consideration of Flavian Rome, arguing for the inescapable relevance of Valerius's own era."--
  table of contents: The home of the winds -- The bed(s) of typhon -- The works of vulcan's forge -- An educational voyage -- Causes and symptoms -- The divine pathogen -- The circle game -- Priscae vestigia fraudis -- The embodied flame -- A sickness of the soul -- Boxing at bebrycia -- Valerius's astronautica -- Tendite in astra, viri! -- Heavenly bodies -- The phoenix and the capitolium.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Darcy A. Krasne.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Valerius Flaccus, Gaius
      name part: active 1st century
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poésie épique latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  subject:
    topic: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Political
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature: history & criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PA6791.V5 K73 2025
  classification: 873/.01
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    title info:
      title: Structuring the cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica
    name:
      name part: Krasne, Darcy A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (OCoLC) 1519548516
  identifier: 9780191885655
  identifier: 0191885657
  identifier: 9780192591135
  identifier: 0192591134
  identifier: 9780192591142
  identifier: 0192591142
  identifier: 9780198850748
  identifier: 0198850743
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 251117
    record change date: 20260319210728.0
    record identifier: in00005728945
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng