Flavian Rome : culture image text 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 Plinys Naturalis historia Patrick Sinclair Plinys 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 Emperors 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