Writing politics in Imperial Rome
By: edited by W.J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite, P.A. Roche.
Contributors: Dominik, William J.; Garthwaite, J.; Roche, P. A.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9789004156715
Subjects: Latin literature -- History and criticism; Political science -- Rome -- History; Politics and literature -- Rome; Politics in literature; Rome -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing imperial politics : the context / William J. Dominik, John Garthwaite, and Paul Roche; title: Writing imperial politics : the social and political background / Steven H. Rutledge; title: Lucretius and the First Triumvirate / John L. Penwill; title: Serving the times : Cicero and Caesar the dictator / Jon Hall; title: Vergil's geopolitics / William J. Dominik; title: Horace's political journey / Robin Bond; title: The politics of aristocratic competition : innovation in Livy and Augustan Rome / Matthew B. Roller; title: The politics of elegy : Propertius and Tibullus / Marcus Wilson; title: Politics in Ovid / Gareth Williams; title: Borrowed plumes : Phaedrus' fables, Phaedrus' failures / Victoria Jennings; title: Outside and inside : Senecan strategies / James Ker; title: Primitive politics : Lucan and Petronius / Martha Malamud; title: Visions of gold : hopes for the new age in Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Garthwaite and Beatrice Martin; title: Of despots, diadems and diadochoi : Josephus and Flavian politics / Steve Mason; title: Navigating power : Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica / Andrew Zissos; title: The ivy and the conquering bay : Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic policy / Paul Roche; title: Statius' self-conscious poetics : hexameter on hexameter / Carole E. Newlands; title: Ludimus Innocui : interpreting Martial's Imperial epigrams / John Garthwaite; title: Reading the prince : textual politics in Tacitus and Pliny / Steven H. Rutledge; title: Reading politics in Suetonius / David Konstan; title: Juvenal : zealous vindicator of Roman liberty / Martin M. Winkler.