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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Flavian"”.
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
… Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual analysis of instances wherein monsters adjoin the dynamics of otherness, literary tradition, …
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Nature, imperialism, and the ethics of war in Flavian epic
… cutting down forests, and fighting river gods, Flavian epic is shown to comment on the military exploits of the three Flavian emperors, their interactions with nature while on campaign, and the ideology of their regime.
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Coins for a legion. An analysis of the coin finds of the Augustan legionary fortress and Flavian canabae legionis at Nijmegen
Contains fulltext : 40928.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… relationship between Josephus and each of the Flavian emperors-Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian-individually, this study seeks to explore the nature of these relationships more comprehensively than has been done in the past. This aim of comprehensiveness is achieved in part by beginning not with …
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Heroic Self-Fashioning in Statius' Thebaid
… relationship between the text and contemporary Flavian society. I suggest that Flavian society was one that was self-conscious about self-portrayal, and that a discourse had arisen about the appropriate ways in which this should be done. I hope to show that the attempts of the heroes to make …
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… a key model for interpreting the rise of the Flavian dynasty from the civil wars that affected Rome after Nero’s death, in AD 68-69. The work is structured in four chapters, by topic; and each chapter is structured in sections, by author. The first chapter explores the relationship between the …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… of 64 CE; and Vespasian, founder of the Flavian dynasty, came to power in 69 CE, after Rome had been ravaged by the violent (and incendiary) Year of Four Emperors. Each ruler, in his own way, worked to equate his restoration of Rome after disaster, which included efforts to prevent future …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
… themes that would be of concern to a reader from Flavian Rome: civil war, power vacuums, crises of inheritance and succession, overextension and abuse of power, and destabilization of political structures when familial and ritual bonds dissolve.</p> <p>These points of interaction between the epic …
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Program Evaluation: Metacognition in a Blended Learning Environment
<p>Students across the country are deciding to leave school at an early age, not enroll in college, and have limited opportunities in regards to employment. Instead of developing systems to address these needs, many American schools have chosen to label these students as at-risk and place them in …
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The Satire of Jane Austen
Among the novelists of the closing decades of the eighteenth century and opening nineteenth is one who holds high rank among the writers of comedy. Jane Austen sweetened the world's fiction by her contributions, while her censoring did much to revolutionize the novel of her day. Calmly, placidly …
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… prosopographical survey indicates that this post-Flavian “memory politics” also affected the hierarchy within the senatorial élite. The thesis that Domitian’s negative reputation is due to his execution of members of the senate must therefore be qualified, as must the thesis that there existed …
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Statius' Silvan Poetics: A Synoptic Reading of the Silvae
… and that they form, as a collection, a new Flavian calendar. This reading is supported by a close analysis of Silv. 1.1 and the entirety of book 1, in which Statius inscribes the Roman festival calendar and extensively echoes Ovid’s Fasti. Chapter 4 shifts the focus from the theme of …
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Quid restat profugis? Exile and power in Silius Italicus’ Punica
This dissertation argues that the epic poet Silius Italicus leverages exile and displacement as markers for the importance of the edges of imperial space. Writing roughly a century after Vergil, empire for Silius is no longer something that needs to be established by a morally excellent outsider …