Staging memory, staging strife : empire and civil war in the Octavia /
Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Literary memory and literary memory: history and intertext in the Octavia -- Staging Octavia? -- Overview of chapters -- Outline of the Octavia -- Models of strife in the Domus Augusta -- Pompeian tragedy in Neronian Rome -- Nero's Caesarean fears -- Rereading the Aeneid's narratives of loss in Octavia's Rome -- Seneca's Augustan narrative -- Lessons in imperial virtue -- The origins of Neronian peace -- Seneca's age of iron -- Remembering Octavian in Neronian Rome -- Lessons in family history -- Fighting for Rome? -- The legacy of Actium: how you end a civil war -- Populus, princeps and the poetics of Roman revolution in the Octavia -- Vergilian seditio in Neronian Rome -- The Octavia's messenger and the poetics of civil war -- A city under siege -- Citizens of discord -- Ode 1: the danger of forgetting -- Ode 2: a call to arms -- Ode 3: Rome's Trojan future -- Ode 4: the danger of popular favor -- Ode 5: the tragic history of rome -- The end of the Octavia -- Epilogue: remembering the Julio-Claudians after 69 CE.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Octavia (Praetexta)
Staging memory, staging strife