After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, Darcy A. Krasne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan, editor.

Krasne, Darcy A., editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 65.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war in literature.

Rome--History--Civil War, 68-69--Historiography.

Rome.

Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The fall of Nero and the civil wars of 69 CE ushered in an era scarred by the recent conflicts; Flavian literature also inherited a rich tradition of narrating nefas from its predecessors who had confronted and commemorated the traumas of Pharsalus and Actium. Despite the present surge of scholarly interest in both Flavian literary studies and Roman civil war literature, however, the Flavian contribution to Rome's literature of bellum ciuile remains understudied. This volume shines a spotlight on these neglected voices. In the wake of 69 CE, writing civil war became an inescapable project for Flavian Rome: from Statius's fraternas acies and Silius's suicidal Saguntines to the internecine narratives detailed in Josephus's Bellum Iudaicum and woven into Frontinus's exempla, Flavian authors' preoccupation with civil war transcends genre and subject matter. This book provides an important new chapter in the study of Roman civil war literature by investigating the multi-faceted Flavian response to this persistent and prominent theme.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Lucanean Lenses

Flavian Epic: Roman Ways of Metabolizing a Cultural Nightmare? / Fucecchi, Marco

Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: Lucan and Civil War in Punica 14 / Marks, Raymond

How It All Began: Civil War and Valerius's Argonautica / Penwill, John

Part II: Narrating Nefas in Statius's Thebaid

Signs of Discord: Statius's Style and the Traditions on Civil War / Bessone, Federica

Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius's Thebaid / Stover, Tim

Civil War on the Horizon: Seneca's Thyestes and Phoenissae in Statius's Thebaid 7 / van der Schuur, Marco

Part III: Leadership and Exemplarity

Reading Civil War in Frontinus's Strategemata: A Case-Study for Flavian Literary Studies / König, Alice

Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil War Themes in Silius's Saguntum Episode / Bernstein, Neil W.

Vespasian's Rise from Civil War in Josephus's Bellum Judaicum / Mason, Steve

Embroidered Histories: Lemnos and Rome in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica / Landrey, Leo

Part IV: Family, Society, and Self

Band of Brothers: Fraternal Instability and Civil Strife in Silius Italicus's Punica / Stocks, Claire

Civil War, Parricide, and the Sword in Silius Italicus's Punica / Dominik, William J.

Engendering Civil War in Flavian Epic / Keith, Alison

A last act of love? Suicide and civil war as tropes in Silius Italicus's Punica and Josephus's Bellum Judaicum / Hulls, Jean-Michel

Part V: Ruination, Restoration, and Empire

Domesticating Egypt in Pliny's Natural History / Manolaraki, Eleni Hall

Valerius Flaccus's Collapsible Universe: Patterns of Cosmic Disintegration in the Argonautica / Krasne, Darcy A.

Instability and the Sublime in Martial's Liber Spectaculorum / Chomse, Siobhan

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Thematic Index

Index of Passages

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [411]-442) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9783110584745

3110584743

9783110585841

3110585847

OCLC:

1083604438