Flavian Rome : : culture, image, text / / edited by A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik.

• TeilnehmendeR: Boyle, A. J.; Dominik, William J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English; Ancient Greek
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (796 pages) :; illustrations

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.

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.