After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome /

After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome / / ed. by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, Darcy Anne Krasne.

The fall of Nero and the civil wars of 69 CE ushered in an era scarred by the recent conflicts; Flavian literature also inherited a rich tradition of narrating nefas from its predecessors who had confronted and commemorated the traumas of Pharsalus and Actium. Despite the present surge of scholarly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bernstein, Neil W.,
Bessone, Federica,
Chomse, Siobhan,
Dominik, William J.,
Fucecchi, Marco,
Hulls, Jean-Michel,
Keith, Alison,
Krasne, Darcy A.,
König, Alice,
Landrey, Leo,
Manolaraki, Eleni Hall,
Marks, Raymond,
Mason, Steve,
Penwill, John,
Stocks, Claire,
Stover, Tim,
van der Schuur, Marco,
HerausgeberIn:
Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan,
Krasne, Darcy Anne,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 65
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 489 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Lucanean Lenses
  • Flavian Epic: Roman Ways of Metabolizing a Cultural Nightmare?
  • Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: Lucan and Civil War in Punica 14
  • How It All Began: Civil War and Valerius’s Argonautica
  • Part II: Narrating Nefas in Statius’s Thebaid
  • Signs of Discord: Statius’s Style and the Traditions on Civil War
  • Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius’s Thebaid
  • Civil War on the Horizon: Seneca’s Thyestes and Phoenissae in Statius’s Thebaid 7
  • Part III: Leadership and Exemplarity
  • Reading Civil War in Frontinus’s Strategemata: A Case-Study for Flavian Literary Studies
  • Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil War Themes in Silius’s Saguntum Episode
  • Vespasian’s Rise from Civil War in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum
  • Embroidered Histories: Lemnos and Rome in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica
  • Part IV: Family, Society, and Self
  • Band of Brothers: Fraternal Instability and Civil Strife in Silius Italicus’s Punica
  • Civil War, Parricide, and the Sword in Silius Italicus’s Punica
  • Engendering Civil War in Flavian Epic
  • A last act of love? Suicide and civil war as tropes in Silius Italicus’s Punica and Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum
  • Part V: Ruination, Restoration, and Empire
  • Domesticating Egypt in Pliny’s Natural History
  • Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe: Patterns of Cosmic Disintegration in the Argonautica
  • Instability and the Sublime in Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Thematic Index
  • Index of Passages

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