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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: enggrc Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.Description: xvii, 754 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9004111883 (hd.bd.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 937/.07 22
LOC classification:
  • DG286 .F53 2003
Contents:
Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome / A.J. Boyle -- The new aristocracy of power / Ronald Mellor -- Conquerors and conquered on Flavian coins / Jane M. Cody -- Poetry and politics at the games of Domitian / Alex Hardie -- Slave-boys for sexual and religious service: images of pleasure and devotion / John Pollini -- Plurima et Amplissima Opera: parsing Flavian Rome / James E. Packer -- Par Operi Sedes: Mrs. Arthur Strong and Flavian style, the Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria reliefs / John Henderson -- Containment and corruption: the discourse of Flavian empire / Rhiannon Evans -- Rhetoric of writing and reading in the preface to Pliny's Naturalis historia / Patrick Sinclair -- Pliny's Naturalis historia: the prodigal text / Trevor Murphy -- A religion for the Empire / Clifford Ando -- Expelling the mind: politics and philosophy in Flavian Rome / John L. Penwill -- Plutarch and the return of the archaic / Phiroze Vasunia -- Flavian drama: looking back with Octavia / Joseph A. Smith -- The politics of epic performance in Statius / Donka D. Markus -- Hannibal at the gates: programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus' Punica 1 and 2 / William J. Dominik -- The Emperor's Saturnalia: Statius, Silvae 1.6 / Carole E. Newlands -- After the silence: Tacitus, Suetonius, Juvenal / Marcus Wilson -- The triumph of Flavius Josephus / Mary Beard -- Flavius Josephus in Flavian Rome: reading on and between the lines / Steve Mason -- Accipe Diuitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: money, poetry, mendicancy and patronage in Martial / Barbara K. Gold -- Reading the empirical revolution: Martial, Epigrams 10 / Hannah Fearnley -- The Flavian amphitheatre: all the world as stage / Erik Gunderson -- Spectacle and elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-717) and indexes.

Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome / A.J. Boyle -- The new aristocracy of power / Ronald Mellor -- Conquerors and conquered on Flavian coins / Jane M. Cody -- Poetry and politics at the games of Domitian / Alex Hardie -- Slave-boys for sexual and religious service: images of pleasure and devotion / John Pollini -- Plurima et Amplissima Opera: parsing Flavian Rome / James E. Packer -- Par Operi Sedes: Mrs. Arthur Strong and Flavian style, the Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria reliefs / John Henderson -- Containment and corruption: the discourse of Flavian empire / Rhiannon Evans -- Rhetoric of writing and reading in the preface to Pliny's Naturalis historia / Patrick Sinclair -- Pliny's Naturalis historia: the prodigal text / Trevor Murphy -- A religion for the Empire / Clifford Ando -- Expelling the mind: politics and philosophy in Flavian Rome / John L. Penwill -- Plutarch and the return of the archaic / Phiroze Vasunia -- Flavian drama: looking back with Octavia / Joseph A. Smith -- The politics of epic performance in Statius / Donka D. Markus -- Hannibal at the gates: programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus' Punica 1 and 2 / William J. Dominik -- The Emperor's Saturnalia: Statius, Silvae 1.6 / Carole E. Newlands -- After the silence: Tacitus, Suetonius, Juvenal / Marcus Wilson -- The triumph of Flavius Josephus / Mary Beard -- Flavius Josephus in Flavian Rome: reading on and between the lines / Steve Mason -- Accipe Diuitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: money, poetry, mendicancy and patronage in Martial / Barbara K. Gold -- Reading the empirical revolution: Martial, Epigrams 10 / Hannah Fearnley -- The Flavian amphitheatre: all the world as stage / Erik Gunderson -- Spectacle and elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos.

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