After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome

Published by De Gruyter 2019

After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome

Edited by: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg and Darcy Anne Krasne

Volume 65 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110585841

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About this book

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.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; Darcy A. Krasne, Columbia University, New York, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Lucanean Lenses
Flavian Epic: Roman Ways of Metabolizing a Cultural Nightmare? Marco Fucecchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: Lucan and Civil War in Punica 14 Raymond Marks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
How It All Began: Civil War and Valerius’s Argonautica John Penwill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Part II: Narrating Nefas in Statius’s Thebaid
Signs of Discord: Statius’s Style and the Traditions on Civil War Federica Bessone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius’s Thebaid Tim Stover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Civil War on the Horizon: Seneca’s Thyestes and Phoenissae in Statius’s Thebaid 7 Marco van der Schuur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Part III: Leadership and Exemplarity
Reading Civil War in Frontinus’s Strategemata: A Case-Study for Flavian Literary Studies Alice König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil War Themes in Silius’s Saguntum Episode Neil W. Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Vespasian’s Rise from Civil War in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum Steve Mason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Embroidered Histories: Lemnos and Rome in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica Leo Landrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Part IV: Family, Society, and Self
Band of Brothers: Fraternal Instability and Civil Strife in Silius Italicus’s Punica Claire Stocks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Civil War, Parricide, and the Sword in Silius Italicus’s Punica William J. Dominik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Engendering Civil War in Flavian Epic Alison Keith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
A last act of love? Suicide and civil war as tropes in Silius Italicus’s Punica and Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum Jean-Michel Hulls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Part V: Ruination, Restoration, and Empire
Domesticating Egypt in Pliny’s Natural History Eleni Hall Manolaraki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe: Patterns of Cosmic Disintegration in the Argonautica Darcy A. Krasne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Instability and the Sublime in Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum Siobhan Chomse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Thematic Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Index of Passages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, scholars of imperial Greek and Roman literature, civil war studies, intertextuality.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 489
Keywords: Flavian literature; civil war; intertextuality; reception

eBook

Published: December 17, 2018
ISBN: 9783110585841

Hardcover

Published: December 17, 2018
ISBN: 9783110583960

Paperback

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110736885