Flavian Responses to Nero's Rome

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These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different people during the ensuing Flavian age of imperial Rome. The contributions show different Flavian responses to Nero’s complicated legacy: while some aspects of his memory were reinforced, others were erased. Emphasizing the constant and diverse nature of this negotiation, this book proposes a nuanced interpretation of both the Flavian age itself and its relation to Nero’s Rome. By combining the study of these strategies with architectural approaches, archaeology, and memory studies, this volume offers a multifaceted picture of Roman civilization at a crucial turning point, and as such will have something to offer anyone interested in classics, (ancient) history, and archaeology.

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1. Introduction, 2. Nero's Divine Stepfather and the Flavian Regime, 3. The Flavians and their Women &–Re-writing Neronian Transgressions?, 4. Flavian Architecture on the Palatine: Continuity or Break?, 5. Some Observations on the Templum Pacis &–A Summa of Flavian Politics, 6. Civil War and Trauma in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, 7. Imitatio, aemulatio, and Ludic Allusion: Channeling Lucan in Statius' Thebaid, 8. Calpurnius Siculus in the Flavian Poets, 9. How to Portray the princeps: Visual Imperial Representation from Nero to Domitian, 10. Iuvenis infandi ingeni scelerum capaxque &–Flavian Responses to Nero's Youth, 11. Historiographical Responses to Flavian responses to Nero