Secondary Literature
Aetiology and Genealogy (A. Walter)
- Binder, G. (1988). Aitiologische Erzählung und augusteisches Programm in Vergils Aeneis, in: G. Binder (ed.). Saeculum Augustum II: Religion und Literatur. Darmstadt: 255–87.
- Chassignet, M. (ed., 2008). L’étiologie dans la pensée antique. Turnhout.
- Clay, J. S. (2003). Hesiod’s cosmos. Cambridge.
- Codrignani, G. (1958). L’aition nella poesia greca prima di Callimaco, Convivium 5: 527–45.
- Loehr, J. (1996). Ovids Mehrfacherklärungen in der Tradition aitiologischen Dichtens. Stuttgart.
- Mac Sweeney, N. (ed., 2014). Foundation myths and politics in ancient societies. Dialogues and discourses. Cambridge.
- Myers, K. S. (1994). Ovid’s causes. Cosmogony and aetiology in the Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor.
- O’Hara, J. J. (1996). True names. Vergil and the Alexandrian tradition of etymological wordplay. Ann Arbor.
- Reitz, C. / Walter, A. (eds., 2014). Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche. Hildesheim.
- Wiseman, T. P. (1974). Legendary genealogies in Late-Republican Rome, G&R 21: 153–64.
Alexandrian Book Division (G. Bitto)
- Adamietz, J. (1976). Zur Komposition der Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus. Munich.
- Barchiesi, A. (2005). The search for the perfect book: a PS to the New Posidippus, in: K. Gutzwiller (ed.). The new Posidippus: a Hellenistic poetry book. Oxford: 320–42.
- De Jong, I. J. F. (1996). Sunset and sunrises in Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes: book-divisions and beyond, Dialogos 3 (1996): 20–35.
- Gärtner, T. (2005). Die Bucheinteilung als künstlerisches Gliederungsprinzip lateinischer Erzähldichtung in Antike und Mittelalter, MLatJb 40: 3–33.
- Heiden, B. (1998). The placement of ‘book divisions’ in the Iliad, JHS 118: 68–81.
- --- (2000). The placement of ‘book divisions’ in the Odyssey, CPh 95: 247–59.
- Higbie, C. (2010). Divide and edit: a brief history of book divisions, HSClPh 105: 1–31.
- Holzberg, N. (1998). Ter quinque volumina as carmen perpetuum: the division into books in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, MD 40: 77–98.
- Hutchinson, G. O. (2008). Talking books. Oxford.
- Jensen, M. S. (1999). Dividing Homer: When and how were the Iliad and the Odyssey divided into songs?, Symbolae Osloenses 74: 5–91.
- Krevans, N. (1984). The poet as editor: Callimachus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius and the development of the poetic book. Diss. Princeton.
- Radicke, J. (2004). Lucans poetische Technik: Studien zum historischen Epos (Mnemosyne, Supplementum 249). Leiden.
- Van Sickle, J. (1980). The book roll and some conventions of the poetic book, Arethusa 13: 13–32.
Aristeiai (C. Stocks)
- Camerotto, A. (2009). Fare gli eroi. Le storie, le emprese, le virtù: composizione e racconto nell'epica greca arcaica (Ricerche. Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università di Venezia 54). Padova.
- Gorman, V. B. (2001). Lucan’s epic aristeia and the hero of the Bellum Civile, CJ 96: 263–90.
- Hardie, P. (1986). Virgil’s Aeneid: cosmos and imperium. Oxford.
- --- (1993). The epic successors of Virgil: a study in the dynamics of a tradition. Cambridge.
- Harrison, S. J. (1991). Vergil: Aeneid 10. Oxford.
- Henderson, J. (1987). Lucan. The word at war, Ramus 16: 122–64.
- Lovatt, H. (2013). The epic gaze: vision, gender and narrative in ancient epic. Cambridge.
- Lovatt, H. / Vout, C. (eds., 2013). Epic visions: visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception. Cambridge.
- Stelow, A. (2009). The aristeia of Menelaos, CJ 104: 193–205.
- Stover, T. (2012). Epic and empire in Vespasianic Rome: a new reading of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Oxford.
Arming and War Preparations (C. Reitz)
- Armstrong, J. I. (1958). The arming motif in the Iliad, AJPh 79: 337–54.
- Hornsby, R. (1966). The armor of the slain, PhQ 45: 347–59.
- Klodt, C. (2003). The ancient and the modern hero. Turnus and Aeneas donning their armour, Classica Cracoviensia 8: 7–40.
- Kühn, W. (1957). Rüstungsszenen bei Homer und Vergil, Gymnasium 64: 28–59.
- Mazzocchini, P. (2000). Forme e significato della narrazione bellica. Fasano.
- Miniconi, P.-J. (1951). Etude des thèmes ‘guerriers’ de la poésie épique greco-romaine. Paris.
- Reitz, C. (2012). Of arms and men: arming scenes in the epic tradition and in Vergil’s Aeneid, in: C. Deroux (ed.). Studies in Latin literature and Roman history. Collection Latomus XVI. Bruxelles: 5–22.
- Rossi, A. (2004). Contexts of war. Manipulation of genre in Virgilian battle narrative. Ann Arbor.
- Small, S. G. P. (1959). The arms of Turnus, Aeneid 7.783–92, TAPhA 90: 243–52
- West, D. (1974). The deaths of Hector and Turnus, G&R 21: 21–31.
Assemblies and Council Scenes (S. Finkmann)
- Bakker, E. J. (1997). Poetry in speech: orality and Homeric discourse. Ithaca.
- Borgo, A. (1976). Aspetti della psicologia di massa in Lucano ed in Tacito, Vichiana 5: 23–57.
- De Jong, I. J. F. (1987). The voice of anonymity: tis-speeches in the Iliad, Eranos 85: 69–84.
- Doherty, L. (1995). Siren songs: gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey. Ann Arbor.
- Flaig, E. (1994). Das Konsensprinzip im Homerischen Olymp: Überlegungen zum göttlichen Entscheidungsprozess. Ilias 4.1-72, Hermes 122: 13–31.
- Gall, D. (2005). Masse, Heere und Feldheeren in Lucans Pharsalia, in: C. Walde (ed.). Lucan im 21. Jahrhundert. Tagungsband mit Beiträgen in engl. und ital. Sprache. Munich: 89–110.
- Griffin, J. (1986). Homeric words and speakers, JHS 106: 36–57.
- Hentze, C. (1905). Die Chorreden in den homerischen Epen, Philologus 64: 254–68.
- Minchin, E. (2001). Homer and the resources of memory. Oxford.
- Müller, B. (1987). Ovid, Iuppiter und Augustus. Gedanken zur Götterversammlung im ersten Buch der Metamorphosen, Philologus 131: 270–88.
- Nishimura-Jensen, J. (2009). The chorus of Argonauts in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica, Phoenix 63: 1–23.
- Rolim de Moura, A. (2008). Speech, voice, and dialogue in Lucan’s Civil War. Oxford.
- Romano Martin, S. (2009). El tópico grecolatino de lo concilio de los dioses (Spudasmata 125). Hildesheim.
- Schmitt, A. W. (1995). Die direkten Reden der Massen in Lucans Pharsalia (Studien zur Klassischen Philologie 95). Frankfurt a. M.
- Vogt-Spira, G. (1990). Strukturen der Mündlichkeit in der römischen Literatur. Tübingen.
Banquet Scenes (A. Bettenworth)
- Bakker, E. J. (2006). Homeric epic between feasting and fasting, in: F. Montanari / A. Rengakos (eds.). La poésie épique grecque: métamorphoses d'un genre littéraire. Vandœuvres–Genève, 22–26 août 2005. Huit exposés suivis de discussions. Geneva.
- Bettenworth, A. (2004). Gastmahlszenen in der antiken Epik von Homer bis Claudian. Diachrone Studien zur Szenentypik (Hypomnemata 153). Göttingen.
- --- (2008). “... cessit diadema fidei”. Das Gastmahl des Usurpators Maximus in der Martinsvita des Paulinus von Périgueux, in: K. Vössing (ed.). Das römische Bankett im Spiegel der Altertumswissenschaften. Internationales Kolloquium 5.–6. Oktober 2005, Schloß Mickeln, Düsseldorf. Stuttgart: 69–82.
- --- (2016). Die Begegnung von Gott und Mensch beim Mahl im Bibelepos des Sedulius, in: D. Hellholm / D. Sänger (eds.). The eucharist – its origins and contexts: sacred meal, communal meal, table fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Tübingen: 1569–1602.
- Dalby, A. (1998). Essen und Trinken im alten Griechenland. Von Homer bis zur byzantinischen Zeit. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von K. Brodersen. Stuttgart.
- Gibson, R. K. (1999). Aeneas as hospes in Vergil, Aeneid 1 and 4, CQ 49: 184–202.
- Levy, H. L. (1963). The Odyssean suitors and the host-guest-relationship, TAPhA 94: 145–53.
- Meurer, U. (2011). “Niemand will ich als letzten verspeisen ... ”: zur Politik der Gastfreundschaft in der Odyssee, in: M. Grünbart (ed.). Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft: Gabentausch und Netzwerkpflege im europäischen Mittelalter. Münster: 117–27.
- Pedrick, V. (1988). The hospitality of noble women in the Odyssey, Helios 15: 85–101.
- Plantinga, M. G. (1999). Hospitality in Apollonius Rhodius. Books 1–2. Diss. St. Andrews.
- Reece, S. (1993). The stranger’s welcome: oral theory and the aesthetics of the Homeric hospitality scene. Ann Arbor.
- Vössing, K. (ed., 2008). Das römische Bankett im Spiegel der Altertumswissenschaften. Internationales Kolloquium 5. –6. Oktober 2005, Schloß Mickeln, Düsseldorf. Stuttgart.
- Williams, F. (1986). Odysseus’ homecoming as a parody of Homeric formal welcomes, CW 79: 395–7.
- Wöhrle, G. (2000). Essen und Sexualität in der frühgriechischen, besonders iambischen Dichtung, RhM 143: 113–18.
Catalogue (R. Lämmle, C. Reitz, C. Scheidegger, K. Wesselmann)
- Batinsky, E. (1992). Lucan’s catalogue of Caesar’s troops: paraodox and convention, CJ 88: 19–24.
- Gaßner, J. (1972). Kataloge im römischen Epos. Diss. Munich.
- Georgacopoulou, S. (1996). Ranger / déranger: catalogues et listes de personnages dans la Thébaide, in: F. Delarue / S. Georgacopoulou / P. Laurens / A.-M. Taisne (eds.). Epicedion. Hommage à P. Papinius Statius, 96–1996. Poitiers. 93–129.
- Heiden, B. (2008). The invocation of the muses and the catalogue of ships, TAPhA 138: 127–54.
- Kühlmann, W. (1973). Katalog und Erzählung. Studien zu Konstanz und Wandel einer literarischen Form in der antiken Epik. Diss. Freiburg.
- Kullmann, W. (1993). Festgehaltene Kenntnisse im Schiffskatalog und im Troerkatalog der Ilias, in: W. Kullmann / J. Althoff (eds.). Vermittlung und Tradierung von Wissen in der griechischen Kultur. Tübingen: 129–47.
- Maugier-Sinha, A. (2010). Énumerer les Argonauts: catalogues épiques et listes mythographiques, enjeux génériques, in: D. Auger / C. Delattre (eds.). Mythe et fiction. Paris: 171–84.
- O’Hara, J. J. (1989). Messapus, Cycnus, and the alphabetical order of Vergil’s catalogue of Italian heroes, Phoenix 43: 35–8.
- Reitz, C. (2013). Does mass matter? The epic catalogue of troops as narrative and metapoetic device, in: G. Manuwald / A. Voigt (eds.). Flavian epic interactions. Berlin: 229–43.
- Sammons, B. (2010). The art and rhetoric of the Homeric catalogue. Oxford.
Days and Seasons (O. Wenkus, A. Wolkenhauer)
- Brauneiser, M. (1944). Tagzeiten und Landschaft im Epos der Griechen und Römer. Diss. Würzburg.
- Caldini Montanari, R. (2007). A che punto è la notte? Le stelle dell' Orsa Maggiore come orologio notturno nella poesia latina a partire da Ennio, Mene 7: 5–91.
- Carlozzo, G. (1999). Dall’aurora alla notte nel De rerum natura di Lucrezio, Sileno 25: 3–19.
- D’Agostino, V. (1960). L’autunno negli scrittori antichi, Riv Studi Class 8: 57–68.
- Delarue, F. (2008). Prélude aux ténèbres. Le temps et la nuit dans le chant premier de la Thébaïde, in: L. Castagne / C. Riboldi (eds.). Amicitiae templa serena: studi in onore di Giuseppe Aricò. vol. 1. Milan: 445–70.
- Della Corte, F. (1981). Spazio / tempo narrativo nell’Eneide, MCSN 3: 15–26.
- Gärtner, U. (1998). Quae magis aspera curis nox. Zur Bedeutung der Tageszeiten bei Valerius Flaccus, Hermes 126: 202–20.
- Hinds, S. (1999). After exile: time and teleology from Metamorphoses to Ibis, in: P. Hardie / A. Barchiesi / S. Hinds (eds.). Ovidian Transformations. Cambridge: 48–67.
- --- (2005). Dislocations of Ovidian time, in: J. P. Schwindt (ed.). Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung. La representation du temps dans la poésie augustéenne. Heidelberg: 203–30.
- Kyriakides, S. (1992). Aeneas’ narrative and the epic reality developed during the night, EEAth 2: 17–37.
- Osmun, G. F. (1962). Night scenes in the Aeneid, Vergilis 8: 27–33.
- Schwindt, J. P. (1994). Das Motiv der Tagesspanne. Ein Beitrag zur Ästhetik der Zeitgestaltung im griechisch-römischen Drama (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, NF 1.9). Paderborn.
- --- (ed., 2005). Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung. La répresentation du temps dans la poésie augustéenne. Heidelberg.
- Wolkenhauer, A. (2011). Sonne und Mond, Kalender und Uhr. Studien zur Darstellung und poetischen Reflexion der Zeitordnung in der römischen Literatur (UaLG 103). Berlin.
Death, Violence, Wounds, and Dismemberment (M. Dinter)
- Dinter, M. T. (2005). Epic and epigram. Minor heroes in Virgil’s Aeneid, CQ 55.1: 153–69.
- Dinter, M. T. (2009). Epic from epigram. The poetics of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica. AJPh 130.4: 533–66.
- Dinter, M. T. (2012). Anatomizing civil war: studies in Lucan's epic technique. Ann Arbor.
- Franchet d'Espèrey, S. (1999). Conflit, violence et non-violence dans la Thébaïde de Stace (Collection d'études anciennes 60). Paris.
- Griffin, J. (1980). Homer on life and death. Oxford.
- Heuzé, P. (1985). L'image du corps dans l'œuvre de Virgile (Collection de l'École française de Rome 86). Paris.
- Lattimore, R. (1942). Themes in Greek and Latin epitaphs (Illinois studies in language and literature 28.1-2). Urbana.
- Most, G. W. (1992). Disiecti Membra Poetae. The rhetoric of dismemberment in Neronian poetry, in: R. Selden and D. Hexter (eds.). Innovations in antiquity. New York: 391–419.
- Strasburger, G. (1954). Die kleinen Kämpfer der Ilias. Diss. Frankfurt.
Ekphrasis (S. Harrison)
- Bal. M. (1985). Narratology: introduction to the theory of narrative. Toronto.
- Dällenbach, L. (1989). The mirror in the text. London.
- Fowler, D. P. (2000). Roman constructions. Oxford.
- Genette, G. (1982). Figures of literary discourse. Oxford.
- Harrison, S. J. (2001). Picturing the future: the prophetic ekphrasis from Homer to Vergil, in: S. J. Harrison (ed.). Texts, ideas and the classics: scholarship, theory and classical literature. Oxford: 70–92.
- --- (2010). Picturing the future again: proleptic ekphrasis in Silius’ Punica, in: A. Augoustakis (ed.). Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus. Leiden: 279–92.
- --- (2013). Proleptic ekphrasis in Flavian epic, in: G. Manuwald / A. Voigt (eds.). Flavian epic interactions. Berlin: 215–28.
- Perutelli, A. (1979). La narrazione commentata: studi sull’epillio latino. Pisa.
- Ravenna, G. (1974). L’ekphasis poetica di opere di arte in latino: temi e problemi, Quad. Ist. Filol. Lat. Un. Padova 3: 1–52.
Epic Fragments (S. Bär and E. Schedel)
- Bernabé, A. (ed., 1996). Poetarum epicorum Graecorum testimonia et fragmenta. Vol. 1. Stuttgart and Leipzig.
- Courtney, E. (ed., 1993). The Fragmentary Latin Poets. Oxford.
- Davies, M. (ed., 1988). Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Göttingen.
- Goldberg, S. M. (1995). Epic in Republican Rome. New York.
- Hollis, A. S. (ed., 2007). Fragments of Roman Poetry. C.60 BC - AD 20. Oxford.
- Huxley, G. L. (1969). Greek Epic Poetry from Eumelos to Panyassis. London.
- Miguélez Cavero, L. (2008). Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200–600 AD. Berlin and New York.
- Morel, W./Büchner, K./Blänsdorf, J. (eds., 1995). Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum Epicorum et Lyricorum praeter Ennium et Lucilium. Stuttgart and Leipzig.
- Most, G. (ed., 1997). Collecting Fragments – Fragmente sammeln. Göttingen.
- Skutsch, O. (ed., 1986). The Annals of Quintus Ennius. Oxford.
- Stephens, S. (2002). Commenting on Fragments, in: R. K. Gibson (ed., 2002). The Classical Commentary. Histories Practices Theory. Leiden and Köln: 67-88.
Epic Poetry in Late Antiquity (S. Zuenelli)
- Alberte A. (1978). Consideraciones en torno al carácter épico de los poemas de Claudiano De bello Gildonico y De bello Gothico, Durius 6: 29–49.
- Cadau, C. (2015). Studies in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen. Leiden.
- Charlet, J.-L. (1988). Aesthetic trends in Late Latin poetry (325-410), Philologus 132: 74–85.
- Formisano, M. (2007). Towards an aesthetic paradigm of Late Antiquity, AntTard 15: 277–84.
- Geisz, C. H. (2013). Storytelling in Late Antique epic: a study of the narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca. Diss. Oxford.
- Gruzelier, C. (1993). Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae. Oxford.
- Kost, K. (1971). Musaios, Hero und Leander. Einleitung, Text Übersetzung und Kommentar. Bonn.
- Miguélez-Cavero, L. (2013). Triphiodorus. The Sack of Troy. Berlin.
- Roberts, M. (1989). The jeweled style. Poetry and poetics in Late Antiquity. Ithaca, NY.
- Schelske, O. (2011). Orpheus in der Spätantike. Studien und Kommentar zu den Argonautika des Orpheus. Ein literarisches, religiöses und philosophisches Zeugnis. Berlin.
Epyllion (M. Baumbach and N. Hömke)
- Ax,W. / Glei, R. F. (eds., 1993). Literaturparodie in Antike und Mittelalter. Trier.
- Bartels, A. (2004). Vergleichende Studien zur Erzählkunst des römischen Epyllion. Göttingen.
- Baumbach, M. / Bär, S. (eds., 2012). Brill’s companion to Greek and Latin epyllion and its reception. Leiden.
- Gall, D. (1999). Zur Technik von Anspielung und Zitat in der römischen Dichtung. Vergil, Gallus und die Ciris. Munich.
- Genette, G. (32001). Palimpseste. Die Literatur auf zweiter Stufe, Frankfurt a. M.
- Holzberg, N. (ed., 2005). Die Appendix Vergiliana. Pseudepigraphen im literarischen Kontext. Tübingen.
- Koster, S. (2002). Epos–Kleinepos–Epyllion? Zu Formen und Leitbildern spätantiker Epik, in: J. Dummer / M. Vielberg (eds.). Leitbilder aus Kunst und Literatur. Stuttgart: 31–51.
- Laird, A. (2001). The poetics and afterlife of Virgil’s descent to the underworld. Servius, Dante, Fulgentius and the Culex, PVS 24: 49–80.
- Merriam, C. U. (2001). The development of the epyllion genre through the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Lewiston.
- Müller, B. (1994). Komische Intertextualität. Die literarische Parodie. Trier.
- Peirano, I. (2012). The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake. Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context. Cambridge.
- Stachon, M. (2014). Tractavi monumentum aere perennius. Untersuchungen zu vergilischen und ovidischen Pseudepigraphen. Trier.
- Sypniewski, H. M (2002). Becoming Vergil. Poetic persona and generic play in the Ps.-Vergilian Culex. Diss. University of Wisconsin-Madison (micr. UMI).
Farewell and Reunion Scenes
- Dietrich, J. S. (2004). Rewriting Dido: Flavian responses to Aeneid 4, Prudentia 36: 1–30.
- Eclercy, B. (1999). Abschiedsszenen – ein Vergleich von Homer (Il. 6.390–502) und Vergil (Aen. 4.279–396), Anregung 45: 179–99.
- Gross, N. P. (1985). Amatory persuasion in antiquity. Studies in theory and practice. Newark.
- Hübner, U. (1984). Episches und Elegisches am Anfang des dritten Buches der Pharsalia, Hermes 112: 227–39.
- Hughes, L. B. (1997). Vergil’s Creusa and Iliad 6, Mnemosyne 50.4: 401–23.
- --- (2002). Dido and Aeneas, an Homeric homilia?, Latomus 61: 339–51.
- La Penna, A. (2000). Eros dai cento volti. Modelli etici ed estetici nell’età Flavi, Venice.
- Micozzi, L. (2002). Il tema dell’addio: ripetizione, sperimentalismo, strategie di continuità e altri aspetti della tecnica poetica di Stazio, Maia 54: 51–70.
- Rosati, G. (1996). Il modello di Aretusa (Prop. IV.3): trecce elegiache nell’ epica del I d. C., Maia 48: 139–55.
- Vinchesi, M. A. (1999). Imilce e Deidamia, due figure femminili dell’ epica flavia (e una probabile ripresa da Silio Italico nell’ Achilleide di Stazio), InvLuc 21: 445–552.
Flight and Pursuit (P. Roche)
- Cairns, D. L. (1993). Aidos: The psychology and ethics of honour and shame in ancient Greek literature. Oxford.
- Fenik, B. (1968). Typical battle scenes in the Iliad: Studies in the narrative techniques of Homeric battle description. Stuttgart.
- De Jong, I. J. F. (2012). Homer: Iliad, Book XXII.Cambridge.
- Juhnke, H. (1972). Homerisches in römischer Epik flavischer Zeit. Munich.
- Knight, V. H. (1995). The renewal of epic: Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius. Leiden.
- Redfield, J. M. (1975). Nature and culture in the Iliad: The tragedy of Hector. Chicago.
- Richardson, N. (1993). The Iliad: a commentary. Books 21–24. Cambridge.
- Rinon, Y. (2008). Homer and the dual model of the tragic. Ann Arbor.
- Tarrant, R. (2012). Virgil: Aeneid 12. Cambridge.
Funerals and Funeral Games (H. Lovatt)
- Beissinger, M. / Tylus, J. / Wofford, S. (eds., 1999). Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community. Berkeley.
- Feldherr, A. (1995). Ships of state: Aeneid 5 and Augustan circus spectacle, ClAnt 14: 245–65.
- Grethlein, J. (2007). Epic narrative and ritual: the case of the funeral games in Iliad 23, in: A. Bierl / R. Lämmle / K. Wesselmann (eds.). Literatur und Religion 2. Wege zu einer mythisch-rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen. MythosEikonPoiesis 1/2. Berlin:151–77.
- Lovatt, H. (2005). Statius and epic games: sport, politics and poetics in the Thebaid. Cambridge.
- --- (2010). Interplay: Statius and Silius in the games of Punica 16, in: A. Augoustakis (ed.). Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus. Leiden:155–78.
- Myers, T. A. (forthcoming). Homer's divine audience: the Iliad's reception on Mount Olympus.
- Seider, A. (2013). Memory in Virgil's Aeneid: creating the past. Cambridge.
- Soerink, J. (2014). Beginning of doom. Statius Thebaid 5.499–753. Introduction, text, commentary. Diss. Groningen.
Intergeneric influences (A. Ambühl)
- Ambühl, A. (2015). Krieg und Bürgerkrieg bei Lucan und in der griechischen Literatur. Studien zur Rezeption der attischen Tragödie und der hellenistischen Dichtung im Bellum Civile. Berlin.
- Bessone, F. (2011). La Tebaide di Stazio: epica e potere. Pisa.
- Curley, D. (2013). Tragedy in Ovid: theater, metatheater, and the transformation of a genre. Cambridge.
- Depew, M. / Obbink, D. (eds., 2000). Matrices of genre: authors, canons, and society. Cambridge, MA. 2000.
- Fedeli, P. (1989). Le intersezioni dei generi e dei modelli, in: G. Cavallo / P. Fedeli / A. Giardina (eds.). Lo spazio letterario di Roma antica. vol. I: la produzione del testo. Roma: 375–97.
- Garner, R. S. (2005). Epic and other genres in the ancient Greek world, in: J. M. Foley (ed.). A companion to ancient epic. Malden, MA: 386–96.
- Harrison, S. J. (2007). Generic enrichment in Vergil and Horace. Oxford.
- Jenkyns, R. (2005). Epic and other genres in the Roman World, in: J. M. Foley (ed.). A companion to ancient epic. Malden, MA: 562–73.
- Martin, R. P. (2005). Epic as genre, in: J. M. Foley (ed.). A companion to ancient epic. Malden, MA: 9–19.
- Panoussi, V. (2009). Greek tragedy in Vergil’s Aeneid: ritual, empire, and intertext. Cambridge.
- Papanghelis, T. D. / Harrison, S. J. / Frangoulidis, S. (eds., 2013). Generic interfaces in Latin literature: encounters, interactions and transformations. Berlin.
- Rinon, Y. (2008). Homer and the dual model of the tragic. Ann Arbor.
- Sauer, C. (2011). Valerius Flaccus’ dramatische Erzähltechnik. Göttingen.
- Schwinge, E.-R. (1990). Aristoteles und die Gattungsdifferenz von Epos und Drama, Poetica 22: 1–20.
Journeys (F. Ripoll)
- Biggs, T. / Blum, J. (eds., forthcoming). Home and away: the epic journey in Greek and Roman literature.
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Mass Combat (J. Telg genannt Kortmann)
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Medieval Latin Epic (P. Orth)
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Messenger Scenes (S. Finkmann)
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Mythological Cycles (J. Farrell)
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Mythical Places (M. Kersten)
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Naval Battles (T. Biggs)
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Neo-Latin Epic (F. Schaffenrath)
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Nyktomachia (C. Stoffel)
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Oriental Influence (J. Haubold)
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Recipients, Narrators, and Focalizers (R. Kirstein)
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River Battles (T. Biggs)
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Quantitative Approaches to Epic Type Scenes (C.Forstall, L.Galli Milić, D.Nelis)
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Sacrifice and Ritual (A. Augoustakis)
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Scenery (T. Behm)
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Similes (U. Gärtner and K. Blaschka)
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