I have been interested for many years in the problems involved in this book, and I could not
have written it without the generous help of many people, especially those who have …

Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to
innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's …

At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign
ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the …

While the central ideal of Roman philosophy exemplified by Lucretius, Cicero and Seneca
appears to be the masculine values of self-sufficiency and domination, this book argues …

Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and
textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are …

The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered
the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a …

Inspiring reverence and blasphemy, combining paternal benignity with sexual violence,
transcendent universality with tribal chauvinism, Jupiter represents both the best and the …

The fall of Nero and the civil wars of 69 CE ushered in an era scarred by the recent conflicts;
Flavian literature also inherited a rich tradition of narrating nefas from its predecessors who …

This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The
guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the …

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that
sustained ancient textual cultures Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece …