Research Catalog

Title

Domitian's Rome and the Augustan legacy / edited by Raymond Marks and Marcello Mogetta.

Publication

• Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marks, Raymond
• Mogetta, Marcello

Description

x, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The legacy of the Roman emperor Augustus and the culture of his age was profound and immediately evident after his death in 14 CE. His first four successors based their claims to rule on kinship with him, thus establishing the Julio-Claudian dynasty (14-68 CE), and plied an evolving form of the Principate, the political arrangement Augustus carved out for himself. His building and restoration programs gave the city an "Augustan" appearance that remained relatively unchanged throughout subsequent reigns. And, among literary luminaries of his age, figures such as Horace and Ovid left an indelible mark on the poetic practices of future generations while Virgil insinuated himself still more deeply into the Roman psyche. But it was after the reigns of Augustus' own descendants, oddly enough, that we witness the most spirited and thoroughgoing engagement with the Augustan past; during the reign of the emperor Domitian, the third and last ruler of the subsequent Flavian dynasty (81-96 CE), there was a veritable Augustan renaissance. This 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. Combining material and literary cultural approaches and covering a diverse range of topics-art, architecture, literature, history, law-the studies in this volume capture the rich complexity of the Augustan legacy in Domitian's Rome while also revising our understanding of Domitian's own legacy. Far from being the cruel tyrant history has made him out to be, Domitian emerges as a studious, thoughtful cultivator of the Augustan past who helped shape an age that not only took inspiration from that past, but managed to rival it"--

Subject

• Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. > Influence
• Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 51-96
• Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D
• 81-96
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Rome > History > Domitian, 81-96
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Inludes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I : urban narratives -- Assemblages and appropriation of Augustan art and topography in Flavian Rome / Diane Atnally Conlin -- Domitian and the Augustan altars / Megan Goldman-Petri -- Legacy revisited : Augustus and Domitian in the imperial fora and the Roman Forum / Daira Nocera -- Part II : gods and models -- Identifying demigods : Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules / Eric m. Moormann and Claire Stocks -- Arachne and Lucretia : a Domitianic perspective? / Emma Buckley -- Part III : from Nero to Augustus -- Looking back when foretelling the future : Panegyric prophecies in Augustan, Neronian, and Domitianic poetry / Lisa Cordes -- Parce, Pater : Martial's "Augustan" commentary on Domitianic Rome in Epigram 5.7 / Virginia M. Closs -- The return of Jupiter : Aeneid 1, Punica 1, and Silius' post-Lucanian theology / Ludovico Pontiggia -- Part IV : poetic journeys --Revisiting Ovid's House of Somnus in Statius' Thebaid / Emma Scioli -- Quid restat profugis? "Vicorious Exile" in Silius Italicus' Punica / Clayton Schroer -- Augustan to the end : poetry, politics, and memory in Statius' Silvae book 4 / Jean-Michel Hulls -- Part V : history and reception -- An ambiguous attitude : Augustus' and Domitian's policies toward senators and freedmen / Egidio Incelli -- Domitian's aftermath : Nerva's Rome and the Augustan legacy in sculpture and coinage / Nathan T. Elkins.

Call Number

JFE 21-8763

ISBN

• 9780472132676
• 0472132679

LCCN

2021015876

OCLC

1199329671

Title

Domitian's Rome and the Augustan legacy / edited by Raymond Marks and Marcello Mogetta.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Inludes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

81-96

Added Author

Marks, Raymond, editor.

Mogetta, Marcello, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Domitian's rome and the augustan legacy Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2021 9780472129232 (DLC) 2021015877

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8763