Motherhood and the other : fashioning female power in Flavian epic Other and same : female presence in Flavian epic. (Fe)male perspectives on cosmopolitanism and identity ; Motherhood and the other defined : Julia Kristeva in the chôra of strangers ; Epic within epic : Lemnos and Theban civil war in Statius Thebaid ; Patrio tic epic : same and other Silius Punica Mourning endless : female otherness in Statius Thebaid. defining the periphery : Thebes and Lemnos ; Between Lemnos and Argos : Hypsipyles transgressed boundaries ; Eumenidum antiquissima : Jocasta the warmonger or helpless bystander ; In the chôra of sisterhood : Antigone and Ismene : public gaze and private lament ; Lament and the poet : boundaries (re)transgressed Defining the other : from altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus Punica ; Fathers sons and the poetics of patria ; Capua : another Rome : a city in the periphery ; Saguntum as same and other : breaking the bond with patria Rome ; German Elissae : a Carthaginian reborn ; The renewal of Tellus Comes ultima fati : Regulus encounter with Marcias otherness in Punica 6 ; Regulus and the Punica : bridging traditions ; Literary convention or subversive speech ; Lucans Marcia and the foreboding of doom ; Marcias Didoesque farewell : impenetrability wounded ; Securing the future ; Transgressing against nature : the serpent and Virgils Camilla ; Fashioning a new generation : Marcia sowing the seed ; Li occhi casti di Marzia tua : embedding Marcia in the Punica Playing the same : Roman and non Roman mothers in the Punica. Edonis ut Pangaea : Imilces art of dissuasion ; Ne bella pavescas : mothers as educators and the regeneration of the female ; Tempus cognoscere manes femineos : the female chôra in the geography of the Underworld ; Caelicolum Phrygia genetricem sede : a foreign goddess in Rome Epilogue : Virgins and (M)others : appropriations of same and other in Flavian Rome