Flavian Rome : culture, image, text /
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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 period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance. Most of the authors are established international figures, but a feature of the volume is the presence of young, emerging scholars at the cutting edge of the discipline. The studies attend to a diversity of topics, including: the new political settlement, the role of the army, change and continuity in Rome's social structures, cultural festivals, architecture, sculpture, religion, coinage, imperial discourse, epistemology and political control, rhetoric, philosophy, Greek intellectual life, drama, poetry, patronage, Flavian historians, amphitheatrical Rome. All Greek and Latin text is translated.
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1 online resource (xvii, 754 pages) : illustrations, plans. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 685-717) and indexes. :
9789004217157 :
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Newsletter,10 Novamber 1954
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Mr. William K. Simpson (Research Associate), Mr. Bernard V. Bothmer (Director), and Mrs. Bothmer (Administrative Officer) arrived in Alexandria on September 16 on board the Gumhuryat Misr, one of the new boats of the Khedivial Mail Line. En route to Egypt they were able to visit the Egyptian collections in the Museo Nazionale in Naples and in the Mus،e National Libanais in Beirut and to make an excursion to the Nahr el Kelb, north of Beirut, where since the times of Ramesses II conquerors and victors had left their inscriptions on the rocks overlooking one of the finest bays of the Mediterranean.