Flavian Rome : culture, image, text / edited by A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik.
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| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2003.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 754 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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 Pliny's Naturalis historia / Patrick Sinclair
- Pliny's 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 Emperor's 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.