A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome /

A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of Rome's second Imperial dynasty. The Flavian Age, while lasting only 27 years (69-96 CE), was a crucial phase in the evolution of the Ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zissos, Andrew (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley/Blackwell, 2016.
Series:Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Andrew Zissos
  • Part I : Preliminary . Sources and evidence / Frédéric Hurlet
  • Part II : Dynasty. The remarkable rise of the Flavians / Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
  • The Emperor Vespasian / John Nicols
  • The emperor Titus / Charles Leslie Murison
  • The Emperor Domitian / Alessandro Galimberti
  • Imperial image-making / Steven L. Tuck
  • Public images of the Flavian dynasty : sculpture and coinage / Susan Wood
  • Remaking Rome / Andrew B. Gallia
  • The Flavians and the senate / Loránd Dészpa
  • Part III : Empire. The economic impact of Flavian rule / Alessandro Launaro
  • Frontiers, security, and military policy /Christopher J. Dart
  • Centers and peripheries / Randall Pogorzelski
  • Flavian Judea / Mark A. Brighton
  • Flavian Britain / Gil Gambash
  • Part IV : Societies and cultures. Foreigners and Flavians : prejudices and engagements / Grant Parker
  • Women in Flavian Rome / Laura K. Van Abbema
  • Education in the Flavian age / Yun Lee Too
  • Flavian Pompeii : restoration and renewal / Eleanor Winsor Leach
  • The aesthetics of the everyday in Flavian art and literature / Sarah H. Blake
  • Flavian spectacle : paradox and wonder / Helen Lovatt
  • Literary culture / Antony Augoustakis
  • Part V : Literature. Epic poetry : historicizing the Flavian epics / Neil W. Bernstein
  • Epigram and occasional poetry : social life and values in Martial's Epigrams and Statius' Silvae / William J. Dominik
  • Latin prose literature : author and authority in the prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian / Paul Roche
  • Flavian Greek literature / Adam Kemezis
  • Lost literature / Michael Dewar
  • Part VI : Reception. The Flavian legacy / Andrew Zissos
  • Vesuvius and Pompeii / Andrew Zissos
  • Reception of Flavian literature / Andrew Zissos.