Flavian Rome : : culture, image, text / / edited by A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (796 pages) :; illustrations |
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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.