Hybrid Epicenters: Peripheral Adaptation in Flavian Literature

The importance of margins and peripheries to Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica is clear from the story it tells, a sea voyage – the first one, in fact – that takes the Argonauts to distant, exotic lands (Manuwald 2013; Slaney 2013). Less clear is how this thematic project mirrors its literary program, specifically, the ways in which it situates itself outside the boundaries of traditional epic (Blum 2019) and uses Ovid to do so.

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