Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome

Editor/Author Zissos, Andrew
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $195.00
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ISBN: 978-1-4443-3600-9
Category: History - History, Ancient
Image Count: 40
Book Status: Available
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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).

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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