Writing politics in Imperial Rome /

Writing politics in Imperial Rome /

Roman literature is inherently political in the varied contexts of its production and the abiding concerns of its subject matter. This collection examines the strategies and techniques of political writing at Rome in a broad range of literature spanning almost two centuries, differing political syst...

Full description

Saved in:

Other Authors: Dominik, William J., Garthwaite, J., Roche, P. A.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I, ISBN: 9789004219274.

Subjects:

Latin literature > History and criticism.
Politics and government.
Latin literature.
Political science.
Politics and literature.
Politics in literature.
Rome > Politics and government.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Online Access: Login to view Source

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: PA6029.P64 W75 2009

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • W. J. Dominik , J. Garthwaite and P. A. Roche
  • Writing Imperial Politics: The Context /
  • William J. Dominik , John Garthwaite and Paul Roche
  • Writing Imperial Politics: The Social and Political Background /
  • Steven H. Rutledge
  • Lucretius and the First Triumvirate /
  • John L. Penwill
  • Serving the Times: Cicero and Caesar the Dictator /
  • Jon Hall
  • Vergil'S Geopolitics /
  • William J. Dominik
  • Horace'S Political Journey /
  • Robin Bond
  • The Politics of Aristocratic Competition: Innovation in Livy and Augustan Rome /
  • Matthew B. Roller
  • The Politics of Elegy: Propertius and Tibullus /
  • Marcus Wilson
  • Politics in Ovid /
  • Gareth Williams
  • Borrowed Plumes: Phaedrus' Fables, Phaedrus' Failures /
  • Victoria Jennings
  • Outside and Inside: Senecan Strategies /
  • James Ker
  • Primitive Politics: Lucan And Petronius /
  • Martha Malamud
  • Visions of Gold: Hopes for the New Age in Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues /
  • John Garthwaite and Beatrice Martin
  • Of Despots, Diadems and Diadochoi: Josephus and Flavian Politics /
  • Steve Mason
  • Navigating Power: Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica /
  • Andrew Zissos
  • The Ivy and the Conquering Bay: Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy /
  • Paul Roche
  • Statius' Self-Conscious Poetics: Hexameter on Hexameter /
  • Carole E. Newlands
  • Ludimus Innocui: Interpreting Martial'S Imperial Epigrams /
  • John Garthwaite
  • Reading the Prince: Textual Politics in Tacitus and Pliny /
  • Steven H. Rutledge
  • Reading Politics in Suetonius /
  • David Konstan
  • Juvenal: Zealous Vindicator of Roman Liberty /
  • Martin M. Winkler
  • Bibliography /
  • W. J. Dominik , J. Garthwaite and P. A. Roche
  • Index Locorum /
  • W. J. Dominik , J. Garthwaite and P. A. Roche
  • General Index /
  • W. J. Dominik , J. Garthwaite and P. A. Roche.