| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 330 pages) : maps (black and white) |
| Contents |
Campania in the Flavian poets' imagination / Antony Augoustakis, R. Joy Littlewood -- Campania and its sites -- Literary representations of Naples in Flavian poetry / Claudio Buongiovanni -- A tale of two waters : Agrippina's death in Flavian poetry / Lauren Donovan Ginsberg -- The fires of Campania : Typhon and the Bay of Naples in valerius Flaccus' Argonautica / Darcy Krasne -- The other campanian volcano : Inarime in Flavian epic / Nikoletta Manioti -- Martial and Campania / Etienne Wolff -- Laudabo digne non satis tamen Baias : Martial's epigrammatic Campania / Margot Neger -- Statius' Silvae -- Campanian geography in Statius' Silvae / Paolo Esposito -- Laudes Campaniae : myth and fantasies of power in Statius' Silvae / Gianpiero Rosati -- Quam Romanus hanos et Grata licentia miscent : cultural fusion, ethical temper, and poetic blend in Statius' Ideal Campania / Federica Bessone -- Through the past to the future of Naples : text and history in Silvae 4.8 / Ana Lóio -- Semirutos... de pulvere vultus : Vesuvius, Statius, and Trauma / Arianna Sacerdoti -- Silius Italicus' Punica- Campania and the Punica / Marco Fucecchi -- Campania at war in Silius Italicus' Punica / Thomas Biggs -- Silius' Cumae and Its Augustan predecessors / Alison Keith -- In a land of gods and monsters : Silius Italicus' Capua / Claire Stocks -- The many faces of Capua : its narrative and programmatic roles in Punica 11-13 / Elina Pyy, Michiel van der Keur -- Statius and his Renaissance readers : the rediscovery of a poeta Neapolitanus / Ian Fielding |
| Summary |
The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakes invited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Latin poetry -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Latin poetry
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Literature
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| SUBJECT |
Campania (Italy) -- In literature
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| Subject |
Italy -- Campania
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Augoustakis, Antony, editor.
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Littlewood, R. Joy, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191845567 |
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0191845566 |
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9780192534828 |
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0192534823 |
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