Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome

Andrew Zissos is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on Latin epic, editor of a commentary on Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica (2008), and co-editor, with Ingo Gildenhard, of Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood (2013).

• List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvAbbreviations xviIntroduction 1Andrew ZissosPart I Preliminary 151 Sources and Evidence 17Frédéric HurletPart II Dynasty 412 The Remarkable Rise of the Flavians 43Frederik Juliaan Vervaet3 The Emperor Vespasian 60John Nicols4 The Emperor Titus 76Charles Leslie Murison5 The Emperor Domitian 92Alessandro Galimberti6 Imperial Image‐Making 109Steven L. Tuck7 Public Images of the Flavian Dynasty: Sculpture and Coinage 129Susan Wood8 Remaking Rome 148Andrew B. Gallia9 The Flavians and the Senate 166Loránd DészpaPart III Empire 18710 The Economic Impact of Flavian Rule 189Alessandro Launaro11 Frontiers, Security, and Military Policy 207Christopher J. Dart12 Centers and Peripheries 223Randall Pogorzelski13 Flavian Judea 239Mark A. Brighton14 Flavian Britain 255Gil GambashPart IV Societies and Cultures 27515 Foreigners and Flavians: Prejudices and Engagements 277Grant Parker16 Women in Flavian Rome 296Laura K. Van Abbema17 Education in the Flavian Age 313Yun Lee Too18 Flavian Pompeii: Restoration and Renewal 327Eleanor Winsor Leach19 The Aesthetics of the Everyday in Flavian Art and Literature 344Sarah H. Blake20 Flavian Spectacle: Paradox and Wonder 361Helen Lovatt21 Literary Culture 376Antony AugoustakisPart V Literature 39322 Epic Poetry: Historicizing the Flavian Epics 395Neil W. Bernstein23 Epigram and Occasional Poetry: Social Life and Values in Martial’s Epigrams and Statius’ Silvae 412William J. Dominik24 Latin Prose Literature: Author and Authority in the Prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian 434Paul Roche25 Flavian Greek Literature 450Adam Kemezis26 Lost Literature 469Michael DewarPart VI Reception 48527 The Flavian Legacy 487Andrew Zissos28 Vesuvius and Pompeii 515Andrew Zissos29 Reception of Flavian Literature 535Andrew ZissosAppendix 1 Chronology 560Appendix 2 Demographic and Other Estimates 565Appendix 3 Flavian Legionary Dispositions 568Appendix 4 Lex de Imperio Vespasiani 570Glossary of Terms and Expressions 573Index of Passages 591General Index 594

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