Flavian Rome : culture, image, text /

Flavian Rome : culture, image, text /

The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the per...

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Other Authors: Boyle, A. J., Dominik, William J.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Ancient Greek

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

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

Subjects:

69 - 96
Rome > History > Flavians, 69-96.
Rome (Empire)
History.

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Call Number: DG286 .F53 2003

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • A. J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik
  • 1. Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome /
  • A. J. Boyle
  • 2. The New Aristocracy of Power /
  • Ronald Mellor
  • 3. Conquerors and Conquered on Flavian Coins /
  • Jane M. Cody
  • 4. Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian /
  • Alex Hardie
  • 5. Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service: Images of Pleasure and Devotion /
  • John Pollini
  • 6. Plurima Et Amplissima Opera: Parsing Flavian Rome /
  • James E. Packer
  • 7. Architecture and Surveillance in Flavian Rome /
  • David Fredrick
  • 8. Par Operi Sedes: Mrs Arthur Strong and Flavian Style, The Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria Reliefs /
  • John Henderson
  • 9. Containment and Corruption: The Discourse of Flavian Empire /
  • Rhiannon Evans
  • 10. Rhetoric of Writing and Reading in the Preface to Pliny'S Naturalis Historia /
  • Patrick Sinclair
  • 11. Pliny'S Naturalis Historia: The Prodigal Text /
  • Trevor Murphy
  • 12. A Religion for the Empire /
  • Clifford Ando
  • 13. Expelling the Mind: Politics and Philosophy in Flavian Rome /
  • John L. Penwill
  • 14. Plutarch and the Return of the Archaic /
  • Phiroze Vasunia
  • 15. Flavian Drama: Looking Back with Octavia /
  • Joseph A. Smith
  • 16. The Politics of Epic Performance in Statius /
  • Donka D. Markus
  • 17. Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas In Silius Italicus' Punica 1 and 2 /
  • William J. Dominik
  • 18. The Emperor'S Saturnalia: Statius, Silvae 1.6 /
  • Carole E. Newlands
  • 19. After the Silence: Tacitus, Suetonius, Juvenal /
  • Marcus Wilson
  • 20. The Triumph of Flavius Josephus /
  • Mary Beard
  • 21. Flavius Josephus in Flavian Rome: Reading on and Between the Lines /
  • Steve Mason
  • 22. Accipe Divitias Et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial /
  • Barbara K. Gold
  • 23. Reading the Imperial Revolution: Martial, Epigrams 10 /
  • Hannah Fearnley
  • 24. The Flavian Amphitheatre: All the World as Stage /
  • Erik Gunderson
  • 25. Spectacle and Elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus /
  • Andrew Zissos
  • Bibliography /
  • A. J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik
  • Index Locorum /
  • A. J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik
  • General Index /
  • A. J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik.