Description: Lucan and Flavian Epic is an analysis of the recent and remarkable rise in scholarly interest in the epic poetry of the Roman Empire, exploring the rich complexity of the poems themselves and of their reception histories.
Brief description: Kyle Gervais, Ph.D. (2013), University of Otago, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He co-edited Brill's Companion to Statius and has published commentaries on Statius' Thebaid, Seneca's Hercules Furens, and John of Garland's Integumenta Ovidii.Randall J. Pogorzelski, Ph.D. (2007), University of California, Santa Barbara, is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Virgil and Joyce: Nationalism and Imperialism in the Aeneid and Ulysses.Sarah Graham-Shaughnessy, M.A. (2019), University of Western Ontario, is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto.