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Staging Memory, Staging Strife - Empire and Civil War in the Octavia (Hardcover)
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Staging Memory, Staging Strife - Empire and Civil War in the Octavia (Hardcover)
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The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of
collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of
Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars
that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial
future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler from outside
the house of Caesar. The anonymous historical drama Octavia is the
earliest literary witness to this era of uncertainty and upheaval.
In this book, Ginsberg offers a new reading of how the play
intervenes in the wars over memory surrounding Nero's fall. Though
Augustus and his heirs had claimed that the Principate solved
Rome's curse of civil war, the play reimagines early imperial Rome
as a landscape of civil strife in which the ruling family waged war
both on itself and on its people. In doing so, the Octavia shows
how easily empire becomes a breeding ground for the passions of
discord. In order to rewrite the history of Rome's first imperial
dynasty, the Octavia engages with the literature of Julio-Claudian
Rome, using the words of Rome's most celebrated authors to stage a
new reading of that era and its ruling family. In doing so, the
play opens a dialogue about literary versions of history and about
the legitimacy of those historical accounts. Through an innovative
combination of intertextual analysis and cultural memory theory,
Ginsberg elucidates the roles that literature and the literary
manipulation of memory play in negotiating the transition between
the Julio-Claudian and Flavian regimes. Her book claims for the
Octavia a central role in current debates over both the ways in
which Nero and his family were remembered as well as the politics
of literary and cultural memory in the early Roman empire.
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