Staging Memory, Staging Strife
Subtitle: Empire and Civil War in the Octavia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780190275952
Subjects: Seneca, lucius annaeus, approximately 4 b.c.-65 a.d.; Rome, history
Description: This work offers a new reading of the Octavia as a staging ground in the memory wars surrounding Nero's fall. Through an innovative combination of cultural memory theory and intertextual analysis, Ginsberg argues that the play reimagines the imperial family as waging war on itself and its people, challenging their claim that with empire came peace.--Publisher description.