Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text

✍ Scribed by A. J. Boyle; W. J. Dominik

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 797
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Readership: Valuable to a wide readership, from the undergraduate student of Roman civilisation to the specialist scholar.

✦ Table of Contents

Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text / eds. A. J. Boyle & W. J. Dominik......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Texts and Abbreviations......Page 16
1. Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome / A. J. Boyle......Page 20
2. The New Aristocracy of Power / Ronald Mellor......Page 88
3. Conquerors and Conquered on Flavian Coins / Jane M. Cody......Page 122
4. Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian / Alex Hardie......Page 144
5. Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service: Images of Pleasure and Devotion / John Pollini......Page 168
6. Plurima et Amplissima Opera: Parsing Flavian Rome / James E. Packer......Page 202
7. Architecture and Surveillance in Flavian Rome / David Fredrick......Page 234
8. Par Operi Sedes: Mrs Arthur Strong and Flavian Style, the Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria Reliefs / John Henderson......Page 264
9. Containment and Corruption: The Discourse of Flavian Empire / Rhiannon Evans......Page 297
10. Rhetoric of Writing and Reading in the Preface to Pliny's Naturalis Historia / Patrick Sinclair......Page 319
11. Pliny's Naturalis Historia: The Prodigal Text / Trevor Murphy......Page 343
12. A Religion for the Empire / Clifford Ando......Page 365
13. Expelling the Mind: Politics and Philosophy in Flavian Rome / John L. Penwill......Page 387
14. Plutarch and the Return of the Archaic / Phiroze Vasunia......Page 411
15. Flavian Drama: Looking Back with Octavia / Joseph A. Smith......Page 433
16. The Politics of Epic Performance in Statius / Donka D. Markus......Page 473
17. Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus' Punica 1 and 2 / William J. Dominik......Page 511
18. The Emperor's Saturnalia: Statius, Silvae 1.6 / Carole E. Newlands......Page 541
19. After the Silence: Tacitus, Suetonius, Juvenal / Marcus Wilson......Page 565
20. The Triumph of Flavius Josephus / Mary Beard......Page 585
21. Flavius Josephus in Flavian Rome: Reading On and Between the Lines / Steve Mason......Page 601
22. Accipe Divitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial / Barbara K. Gold......Page 633
23. Reading the Imperial Revolution: Martial, Epigrams 10 / Hannah Fearnley......Page 655
24. The Flavian Amphitheatre: All the World as Stage / Erik Gunderson......Page 679
25. Spectacle and Elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos......Page 701
Bibliography......Page 727
Index Locorum......Page 761
General Index......Page 767

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История древнего мира;История античного мира;История Древнего Рима;