The war with god : theomachy in Roman imperial poetry /
Chaudhuri, Pramit,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-356) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Theomachy in Greek Epic and Tragedy -- 2. The Origins of Roman Theomachy: Lucretius and Vergil -- 3. Theomachy as Test in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- 4. Deification and Theomachy in Seneca's Hercules Furens -- 5. Theomachy in Historical Epic: Disenchantment and Remystification in Lucan's Bellum Civile -- 6. Paradigms of Theomachy in Flavian Epic: Homer, Intertextuality, and the Struggle for Identity -- 7. The War of the Worlds: Hannibal as Theomach in Silius Italicus' Punica -- 8. Theomachy and the Limits of Epic: Capaneus in Statius' Thebaid -- 9. The Politics of Theomachy -- Epilogue.
Latin poetry
Theology in literature.
Theomachy.
Good and evil in literature.