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Index
The Madness of Epic
Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS AND TEXTS
1
Introduction: Fragments d'un Discours Furieux
Modern and Ancient Models of Madness
A Methodology in the Madness
Modelling Epic Madness
Furies
Meta-Madness
2
Vergil's Aeneid: The Romans and the Irrational
I
A Moment of Madness?
II
Mad Beginnings: Acheronta mouebo
An Open and Shut Case? The Dirae
3
Homeric Epic: The Greeks and the Rational?
Homeric 'Psychology'
Men, MENOZ, and Madness
In the Grip of Madness?
4
Ovid's Metamorphoses: Shifting Boundaries of the Divided Self
Ontological Insecurity
Engulfment
Implosion
Petrification
The Metapoetics of Ontological Insecurity
Postmodern Critiques: Postmodern Metamorphoses?
5
Lucan's Bellum Ciuile: Epic In Extremis
Political Madness/Mad Politics
furor Romanus
felix naufragus
Cato furens?
6
Statius' Thebaid: Furor Without Limits
I
The Madness of Men
Divine Madness
The Poetics of Madness
II
Sons and Lovers
Daughters and Virgins
Madness and Aftermath
Epilogue
REFERENCES
INDEX OF PASSAGES
GENERAL INDEX
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