Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text

The politics, literature and culture of Ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of specially-commissioned studies, 25 scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance. 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; political control; rhetoric; philosophy; Greek intellectual life; drama; poetry; patronage; Flavian historians; and amphitheatrical Rome. All the Greek and Latin is translated.

ISBN 9004111883   DEWEY 937.07 ISBN13 9789004111882 (What's this?)   Pages 754 Publisher Brill Academic Publishers   Volumes 1 Imprint BRILL ACADEMIC PUB   Weight (grammes) 1557 Format Hardback   Published in Leiden Publication date 01 May 2005   Height (mm) 248 Library of Congress 2003272841   Width (mm) 163

		Notes on Contributors
		Preface
		List of Illustrations
		Texts and Abbreviations
1		Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome by A. J. Boyle		1
2		The New Aristocracy of Power by Ronald Mellor		69
3		Conquerors and Conquered on Flavian Coins by Jane M. Cody		103
4		Poetry and Politics at the Games of Domitian by Alex Hardie		125
5		Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service: Images of Pleasure and Devotion by John Pollini		149
6		Plurima el Amplissima Opera: Parsing Flavian Rome by James E. Packer		167
7		Architecture and Surveillance in Flavian Rome by David Fredrick		199
8		Par Operi Sedes: Mrs. Arthur Strong and Flavian Style, the Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria Reliefs by John Henderson		229
9		Containment and Corruption: The Discourse of Flavian Empire by Rhiannon Evans		255
10		Rhetoric of Writing and Reading in the Preface to Pliny's Naturalis Historia by Patrick Sinclair		277
11		Pliny's Naturalis Historia: The Prodigal Text by Trevor Murphy		301
12		A Religion for the Empire by Clifford Ando		323
13		Expelling the Mind: Politics and Philosophy in Flavian Rome by John L. Penwill		345
14		Plutarch and the Return of the Archaic by Phiroze Vasunia		369
15		Flavian Drama: Looking Back with Octavia by Joseph A. Smith		391
16		The Politics of Epic Performance in Statius by Donka D. Markus		431
17		Hannibal at the Gates: Programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus' Punica 1 and 2 by William J. Dominik		469
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