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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Julio-Claudian"”.
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Disgrace and Agency: Pompeiian Gladiators and Infamia in the Julio-Claudian Period
… pertaining 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
… in 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 …
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Valerius Maximus on Vice: a commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11
… world 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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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
… lower 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
… situates 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 …