This collection of essays reaffirms the central importance of adopting an intertextual approach
to the study of Flavian epic poetry and shows despite all that has been achieved just how
much still remains to be done on the topic. Most of the contributions are written by scholars
who have already made major contributions to the field and taken together they offer a set of
state of the art contributions on individual topics a general survey of trends in recent
scholarship and a vision of at least some of the paths work is likely to follow in the years
ahead. In addition there is a particular focus on recent developments in digital search
techniques and the influence they are likely to have on all future work in the study of the
fundamentally intertextual nature of Latin poetry and on the writing of literary history more
generally.
