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Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of intertextual allusion, draws on theories of natural science and philosophy (an eclectic mix of Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Empedoclean doctrine, on an ethical as well as a cosmological level) to construct an unstable cosmos that is, on multiple levels, both prone to dissolution and a breeding ground for cycles of civil war. The book argues that Valerius's intertextual practices can be read as a form of

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Darcy Krasne is a scholar of Latin poetry who specializes in Flavian and Augustan poetry. She has published on Valerius Flaccus, Ovid, Vergil, and Statius, and she is the co-editor of After 69 CE: Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome (De Gruyter, 2018).

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