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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.
Contents
Frontmatter
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
1: Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood: Campania in the Flavian Poets' Imagination
Campania and its Sites
2: Claudio Buongiovanni: Literary Representations of Naples in Flavian Poetry
3: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg: A Tale of Two Waters: Agrippina's Death in Flavian Poetry
4: Darcy Krasne: The Fires of Campania: Typhoeus and the Bay of Naples in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
5: Nikoletta Manioti: The Other Campanian Volcano: Inarime in Flavian Epic
6: Étienne Wolff: Martial and Campania
7: Margot Neger: Laudabo digne non satis tamen Baias: Martial's Epigrammatic Campania
Statius' Silvae
8: Paolo Esposito: Campanian Geography in Statius' Silvae
9: Gianpiero Rosati: Laudes Campaniae: Myth and Fantasies of Power in Statius' Silvae
10: Federica Bessone: Quam Romanus honos et Graia licentia miscent: Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper, and Poetic Blend in Statius' Ideal Campania
11: Ana Lóio: Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silvae 4.8
12: Arianna Sacerdoti: Semirutos . . . de pulvere vultus: Vesuvius, Statius, and Trauma
Silius Italicus' Punica
13: Marco Fucecchi: Campania and the Punica
14: Thomas Biggs: Campania at War
15: Alison Keith: Silius' Cumae and its Augustan Predecessors
16: Claire Stocks: In a Land of Gods and Monsters: Silius Italicus' Capua
17: Elina Pyy and Michiel van der Keur: The Many Faces of Capua: Its Narrative and Programmatic Roles in Punica 11-13
Epilogue
18: Ian Fielding: Statius and his Renaissance Readers: The Rediscovery of a poeta Neapolitanus
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
