Abbreviations and Texts
Introduction
1. We'll Always Have Paris: Aeneas and the Roman Legacy
2. Lucan's Cato and the Poetics of Exemplarity
3. Seneca's Oedipus: Characterization and Decorum
4. Parthenopaeus and Mors immatura in Statius' Thebaid
5. Amphiaraus, Predestined Prophet, Didactic Vates
Conclusions
Appendix: Seneca's Hippolytus and Fatal Attraction
Bibliography
Passages Cited
Index
J. Mira Seo is Associate Professor in the Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
"In this theoretically informed study of Roman epic and tragedy, J.
Mira Seo demonstrates how intertextuality both shapes and
interrogates character. This is an important book whose compelling
new readings of Virgil's Aeneid, Lucan's Bellum Civile, Statius'
Thebaid, and Seneca's Oedipus and Phaedra invite reassessment of
the Latin literary canon." --Carole E. Newlands, University of
Colorado
"In what ways, and by what techniques, is characterization
constructed in Roman poetry? How might literary models influence
character-construction through a process akin to intertextual
allusivity? By exploring such questions, and through its detailed
readings of Virgil, Lucan, Seneca and Statius, this study sheds
important new light on a fascinating but understudied area of Roman
poetic practice." --Gareth D. Williams, Columbia University
"Seo's readings of five characters from Roman epic and tragedy are
exemplary in the best sense." --CJ-Online, a service of The
Classical Journal
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