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Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Hardcover)
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Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination (Hardcover)
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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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