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Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,915
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Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Hardcover): Antony Augoustakis, R.Joy Littlewood

Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Hardcover)

Antony Augoustakis, R.Joy Littlewood

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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.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2019
Editors: Antony Augoustakis (Professor and Head of Classics) • R.Joy Littlewood (Independent scholar)
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-880774-2
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 0-19-880774-0
Barcode: 9780198807742

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