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Campania in the Flavian poetic imagination / edited by Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Augoustakis, Antony, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin poetry.
- Campania (Italy).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- The volcanic soil of Campania, the region surrounding Vesuvius, was fertile ground for the imaginations of Flavian writers. In the aftermath of the volcano's eruption in 79 CE, authors including Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus continued to live and work in Campania, writing about it as an alluring region of luxury and peril.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 29, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-253483-1
- 0-19-253482-3
- 0-19-184556-6
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