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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Lucanean Lenses
Flavian Epic: Roman Ways of Metabolizing a Cultural Nightmare?
Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: Lucan and Civil War in Punica 14
How It All Began: Civil War and Valerius’s Argonautica
Part II: Narrating Nefas in Statius’s Thebaid
Signs of Discord: Statius’s Style and the Traditions on Civil War
Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius’s Thebaid
Civil War on the Horizon: Seneca’s Thyestes and Phoenissae in Statius’s Thebaid 7
Part III: Leadership and Exemplarity
Reading Civil War in Frontinus’s Strategemata: A Case-Study for Flavian Literary Studies
Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil War Themes in Silius’s Saguntum Episode
Vespasian’s Rise from Civil War in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum
Embroidered Histories: Lemnos and Rome in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica
Part IV: Family, Society, and Self
Band of Brothers: Fraternal Instability and Civil Strife in Silius Italicus’s Punica
Civil War, Parricide, and the Sword in Silius Italicus’s Punica
Engendering Civil War in Flavian Epic
A last act of love? Suicide and civil war as tropes in Silius Italicus’s Punica and Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum
Part V: Ruination, Restoration, and Empire
Domesticating Egypt in Pliny’s Natural History
Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe: Patterns of Cosmic Disintegration in the Argonautica
Instability and the Sublime in Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Thematic Index
Index of Passages

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