Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination

Antony Augoustakis is Professor and Head of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Statius, Thebaid 8 (Oxford, 2016), Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (Oxford, 2010), and Plautus' Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009), and has also edited and co-edited several volumes on Flavian epic, Roman comedy, and late antiquity. He is currently completing a commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 3 with R. Joy Littlewood and serves as editor of The Classical Journal.R. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford. She has published commentaries on Ovid's Fasti 6 (Oxford, 2006), Silius Italicus' Punica 7 (Oxford, 2011), and Silius Italicus' Punica 10 (Oxford, 2017). Her current research projects include the completion of the fourth volume of J. C. McKeown's commentary on Ovid's Amores and a commentary on Silius Italicus' Punica 3 with Antony Augoustakis.

• Frontmatter List of Maps List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction 1: Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood: Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination Campania and its Sites 2: Claudio Buongiovanni: Literary Representations of Naples in Flavian Poetry 3: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg: A Tale of Two Waters: Agrippina's Death in Flavian Poetry 4: Darcy Krasne: The Fires of Campania: Typhoeus and the Bay of Naples in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica 5: Nikoletta Manioti: The Other Campanian Volcano: Inarime in Flavian Epic 6: Étienne Wolff: Martial and Campania 7: Margot Neger: Laudabo digne non satis tamen Baias: Martial's Epigrammatic Campania Statius' Silvae 8: Paolo Esposito: Campanian Geography in Statius' Silvae 9: Gianpiero Rosati: Laudes Campaniae: Myth and Fantasies of Power in Statius' Silvae 10: Federica Bessone: Quam Romanus honos et Graia licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania 11: Ana Lóio: Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silvae 4.8 12: Arianna Sacerdoti: Semirutos . . . de pulvere vultus: Vesuvius, Statius, and Trauma Silius Italicus' Punica 13: Marco Fucecchi: Campania and the Punica 14: Thomas Biggs: Campania at War 15: Alison Keith: Silius' Cumae and its Augustan Predecessors 16: Claire Stocks: In a Land of Gods and Monsters: Silius Italicus' Capua 17: Elina Pyy and Michiel van der Keur: The Many Faces of Capua: Its Narrative and Programmatic Roles in Punica 11-13 Epilogue 18: Ian Fielding: Statius and his Renaissance Readers: The Rediscovery of a poeta Neapolitanus Endmatter Bibliography Index Locorum General Index

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