Staging memory, staging strife : empire and civil war in the Octavia
| 1. Verfasser: |
Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan,
, [VerfasserIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
249 pages. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Imperium Romanum |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 2 Datensätze |
| Online Zugang: |
Online available (Ebook Central) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Literary memory and literary memory: history and intertext in the Octavia
- Staging Octavia?
- Overview of chapters
- Outline of the Octavia
- Models of strife in the Domus Augusta
- Pompeian tragedy in Neronian Rome
- Nero's Caesarean fears
- Rereading the Aeneid's narratives of loss in Octavia's Rome
- Seneca's Augustan narrative
- Lessons in imperial virtue
- The origins of Neronian peace
- Seneca's age of iron
- Remembering Octavian in Neronian Rome
- Lessons in family history
- Fighting for Rome?
- The legacy of Actium: how you end a civil war
- Populus, princeps and the poetics of Roman revolution in the Octavia
- Vergilian seditio in Neronian Rome
- The Octavia's messenger and the poetics of civil war
- A city under siege
- Citizens of discord
- Ode 1: the danger of forgetting
- Ode 2: a call to arms
- Ode 3: Rome's Trojan future
- Ode 4: the danger of popular favor
- Ode 5: the tragic history of rome
- The end of the Octavia
- Epilogue: remembering the Julio-Claudians after 69 CE.
