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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Claudian"”.
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Disgrace and Agency: Pompeiian Gladiators and Infamia in the Julio-Claudian Period
… to Pompeiian gladiators during the Julio-Claudian period (14-68 CE), a time when the popularity of gladiator spectacles rises. Additionally, Pompeii is an important consideration for this study, not only because of the abundance of material culture (graffiti, epigraphy, and physical …
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The Enemy Within: Combatants, Commanders, and Comparative Models in Julio-Claudian Recollections of Late Republican Civil War
… Greek, literature composed throughout the Julio-Claudian period. I argue that these parallels provided a key apparatus through which writers active in the century between Augustus' consolidation of power in 27BC and the resumption of civil conflict in 69AD after the death of Nero conceptualised, …
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Religion and Rhetoric at the Courts of the Theodosians, c. 379-404 A.D.
… rhetor, Themistius; in the Latin West, the poet Claudian, who delivered a number of orations in the form of epic poems at the court of Honorius, and the boy-emperor’s de facto regent Stilicho. The central argument of the thesis is that the religious significance of the ‘classicising’ material in …
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Valerius Maximus on Vice: a commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11
… domination and to justify the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. By detailed analysis of the sources of Valerius' material, of the way he transforms it within his chosen genre, and of how he frames his exempla, this thesis illuminates the contribution of an often overlooked author to the …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
… on Virgil, in the context of his contemporaries, Claudian and Augustine. The former uses Virgil to support the greatness of Rome, the latter uses Virgil to give cultural status to his Christian interpretation. However, all three present a construction of Rome either as the great city of the past, …
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Divus Augustus Pater: Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus
… thus allowing for the domination of the Julio-Claudian family and the peaceful succession of Caligula (chapter five).
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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
… registers of language, its debasement of Julio-‐Claudian traditions, and its celebration of Saturnalia. In the Apocolocyntosis Nero's promise of renewal of the principate and literature is represented as a Saturnalian return to the Saturnia regna of Augustus.</p> <p>Persius continued this …
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Aspects of Evil in Seneca's Tragedies
… this study in the historical context of Julio-Claudian rule at Rome. In addition, I sketch the relative chronology of Seneca’s works and chart Seneca’s interest in the myths on display in Greek and Roman tragedy. Chapter One, “The Beast Within,” investigates the contrast of the civilized and …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… tradition in passages of Pliny, Solinus, Claudian, and Pacatus. The commonplaces of a temperate climate, gold-bearing rivers, natural fertility, and others, were passed on to Isidore, whose <em>De laude Spanie</em> would influence the much later thirteenth-century encomia of Hispania as …