Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

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 uns...