Boyle A.J., Dominik W.J. (ed.) Flavian Rome. Culture, Image, Text

Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2003. – 797 p.
ISBN: 90-04-11188-3The 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.Notes on ContributorsTexts and AbbreviationsA. J. Boyle. Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome
Ronald Mellor. The New Aristocracy of Power
Jane M. Cody. Conquerors and Conquered on Flavian Coins
Alex Hardie. Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian
John Pollini. Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service: Images of Pleasure and Devotion
James E. Packer. Plurima et Amplissima Opera: Parsing Flavian Rome
David Fredrick. Architecture and Surveillance in Flavian Rome
John Henderson. Par Operi Sedes: Mrs Arthur Strong and Flavian Style, the Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria Reliefs
Rhiannon Evans. Containment and Corruption: The Discourse of Flavian Empire
Patrick Sinclair. Rhetoric of Writing and Reading in the Preface to Pliny’s Naturalis Historia
Trevor Murphy. Pliny’s Naturalis Historia: The Prodigal Text
Clifford Ando. A Religion for the Empire
John L. Penwill. Expelling the Mind: Politics and Philosophy in Flavian Rome
Phiroze Vasunia. Plutarch and the Return of the Archaic
Joseph A. Smith. Flavian Drama: Looking Back with Octavia
Donka D. Markus. The Politics of Epic Performance in Statius
William J. Dominik. Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus’ Punica 1 and 2
Carole E. Newlands. The Emperor’s Saturnalia: Statius, Silvae 1.6
Marcus Wilson. After the Silence: Tacitus, Suetonius, Juvenal
Mary Beard. The Triumph of Flavius Josephus
Steve Mason. Flavius Josephus in Flavian Rome: Reading On and Between the Lines
Barbara K. Gold. Accipe Diuitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: Money, Poetry, Mendicancy and Patronage in Martial
Hannah Fearnley. Reading the Imperial Revolution: Martial, Epigrams 10
Erik Gunderson. The Flavian Amphitheatre: All the World as Stage
Andrew Zissos. Spectacle and Elite in the Argonautica of Valerius FlaccusIndex Locorum
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