Description
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the first book-length treatment of the reception of Augustus and his age during the reign of Domitian. Its thirteen chapters, authored by an international group of scholars, offer readers a glimpse into the fascinating history and culture of Domitian’s Rome and its multifaceted engagement with the Augustan past.
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction (Raymond Marks and Marcello Mogetta)
- Part I: Urban Narratives
- 1. Assemblages and Appropriation of Augustan Art and Topography in Flavian Rome (Diane Atnally Conlin)
- 2. Domitian and the Augustan Altars (Megan Goldman-Petri)
- 3. Legacy Revisited: Augustus and Domitian in the Imperial Fora and the Roman Forum (Daira Nocera)
- Part II: Gods and Models
- 4. Identifying Demi-Gods: Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules (Eric M. Moormann and Claire Stocks)
- 5. Arcahne and Lucretia: A Domitianic Perspective? (Emma Buckley)
- Part III: From Nero to Augustus
- 6. Looking Back When Foretelling the Future: Panegyric Prophecies in Augustan, Neronian and Domitianic Poetry (Lisa Cordes)
- 7. Parce Pater: Martial’s “Augustan” Commentary on Domitianic Rome in Epigram 5.7 (Virginia Closs)
- 8. The Return of Jupiter: Aeneid 1, Punica 1, and Silius’ Post-Lucanian Theology (Ludovico Pontiggia)
- Part IV: Poetic Journeys
- 9. Revisiting Ovid’s House of Somnus in Statius’ Thebaid (Emma Scioli)
- 10. Quid restat profugis? “Victorious Exile” in Silius Italicus’ Punica (Clayton Schroer)
- 11. Augustan to the End: Poetry, Politics and Memory in Statius’ Silvae Book 4 (Jean-Michel Hulls)
- Part V: History and Reception
- 12. An Ambiguous Attitude: Augustus and Domitian’s Policy towards Senators and Freedmen (Egidio Incelli)
- 13. Domitian’s Aftermath: Nerva’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy in Sculpture and Coinage (Nathan Elkins)
- Bibliography and Abbreviations
