A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of the Flavian Age (69--96 CE).

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Preliminary
• Sources and Evidence
• Dynasty
• The Remarkable Rise of the Flavians
• The Emperor Vespasian
• The Emperor Titus
• The Emperor Domitian
• Imperial Image-Making
• Public Images of the Flavian Dynasty: Sculpture and Coinage
• Remaking Rome
• The Flavians and the Senate
• Empire
• The Economic Impact of Flavian Rule
• Frontiers, Security, and Military Policy
• Centers and Peripheries
• Flavian Judea
• Flavian Britain
• Societies and Cultures
• Foreigners and Flavians: Prejudices and Engagements
• Women in Flavian Rome
• Education in the Flavian Age
• Flavian Pompeii: Restorationand Renewal
• The Aesthetics of the Everyday in Flavian Art and Literature
• Flavian Spectacle: Paradox and Wonder
• Literary Culture
• Literature
• Epic Poetry: Historicizing the Flavian Epics
• Epigram and Occasional Poetry: Social Life and Values in Martial's Epigrams and Statius’ Silvae
• Latin Prose Literature: Author and Authority in the Prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian
• Flavian Greek Literature
• Lost Literature
• Reception
• The Flavian Legacy
• Vesuvius and Pompeii
• Reception of Flavian Literature
• Chronology
• Demographic and Other Estimates
• Flavian Legionary Dispositions
• Lex de Imperio Vespasiani
• Glossary of Termsand Expressions