Campania in the Flavian poetic imagination / edited by Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Augoustakis, Antony, editor.

Littlewood, R. Joy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Literature.

Campania (Italy)--In literature.

Campania (Italy).

Italy--Campania.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii, 330 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.

Contents:

1 Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination p. 3 / Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood

Campania and its Sites

2 Literary Representations of Naples in Flavian Poetry p. 15 / Claudio Buongiovanni

3 A Tale of Two Waters: Agrippina's Death in Flavian Poetry p. 25 / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

4 The Fires of Campania: Typhon and the Bay of Naples in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica p. 43 / Darcy Krasne

5 The Other Campanian Volcano: Inarime in Flavian Epic p. 61 / Nikoletta Manioti

6 Martial and Campania p. 75 / Etienne Wolff

7 Laudabo digne non satis tamen Baias: Martial's Epigrammatic Campania p. 83 / Margot Neger

Statius' Silvae

8 Campanian Geography in Statius' Silvae p. 101 / Paolo Esposito

9 Laudes Campaniae: Myth and Fantasies of Power in Statius' Silvae p. 113 / Gianpiero Rosati

10 Quam Romanus hanos et Grata licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania p. 131 / Federica Bessone

11 Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silvae 4.8 p. 149 / Ana Lóio

12 Semirutos... de pulvere vultus: Vesuvius, Statius, and Trauma p. 167 / Arianna Sacerdoti

Silius Italicus' Punica

13 Campania and the Punica p. 183 / Marco Fucecchi

14 Campania at War in Silius Italicus' Punica p. 201 / Thomas Biggs

15 Silius' Cumae and Its Augustan Predecessors p. 219 / Alison Keith

16 In a Land of Gods and Monsters: Silius Italicus' Capua p. 233 / Claire Stocks

17 The Many Faces of Capua: Its Narrative and Programmatic Roles in Punica 11-13 p. 249 / Elina Pyy and Michiel van der Keur

18 Statius and His Renaissance Readers: The Rediscovery of a poeta Neapolitanus p. 271 / Ian Fielding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198807740

9780198807742

OCLC:

1044668383

Publisher Number:

99980359608