Flavian Rome
Subtitle: culture, image, text
By: edited by A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik.
Contributors: Boyle, A. J.; Dominik, William J.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 754
Subjects: Rome -- History -- Flavians, 69-96.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [685]-717) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reading Flavian Rome / A.J. Boyle; title: The new aristocracy of power / Ronald Mellor; title: Conquerors and conquered on Flavian coins / Jane M. Cody; title: Poetry and politics at the games of Domitian / Alex Hardie; title: Slave-boys for sexual and religious service: images of pleasure and devotion / John Pollini; title: Plurima et Amplissima Opera: parsing Flavian Rome / James E. Packer; title: Par Operi Sedes: Mrs. Arthur Strong and Flavian style, the Arch of Titus and the Cancelleria reliefs / John Henderson; title: Containment and corruption: the discourse of Flavian empire / Rhiannon Evans; title: Rhetoric of writing and reading in the preface to Pliny's Naturalis historia / Patrick Sinclair; title: Pliny's Naturalis historia: the prodigal text / Trevor Murphy; title: A religion for the Empire / Clifford Ando; title: Expelling the mind: politics and philosophy in Flavian Rome / John L. Penwill; title: Plutarch and the return of the archaic / Phiroze Vasunia; title: Flavian drama: looking back with Octavia / Joseph A. Smith; title: The politics of epic performance in Statius / Donka D. Markus; title: Hannibal at the gates: programmatising Rome and Romanitas in Silius Italicus' Punica 1 and 2 / William J. Dominik; title: The Emperor's Saturnalia: Statius, Silvae 1.6 / Carole E. Newlands; title: After the silence: Tacitus, Suetonius, Juvenal / Marcus Wilson; title: The triumph of Flavius Josephus / Mary Beard; title: Flavius Josephus in Flavian Rome: reading on and between the lines / Steve Mason; title: Accipe Diuitias et Vatum Maximus Esto: money, poetry, mendicancy and patronage in Martial / Barbara K. Gold; title: Reading the empirical revolution: Martial, Epigrams 10 / Hannah Fearnley; title: The Flavian amphitheatre: all the world as stage / Erik Gunderson; title: Spectacle and elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus / Andrew Zissos.