Ebook: A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Preliminary: Sources and evidence -- Dynasty: The remarkable rise of the Flavians; The Emperor Vespasian; The Emperor Titus; The Emperor Domitian; Imperial image-making; Public images of the Flavian Dynasty: sculpture and coinage; Remaking Rome; The Flavians and the Senate -- Empire: The economic impact of Flavian rule; Frontiers, security, and military policy; Centers and peripheries; Flavian Judea; Flavian Britain -- Societies and cultures: Foreigners and Flavians: prejudices and engagements; Women in Flavian Rome; Education in the Flavian Age; Flavian Pompeii: restoration and renewal; The aesthetics of the everyday in Flavian art and literature; Flavian spectacle: paradox and wonder; Literary culture -- Literature: Epic poetry: historicizing the Flavian epics; Epigram and occasional poetry: social life and values in Martial's epigrams and Statius' Silvae; Latin prose literature: author and authority in the prefaces of Pliny and Quintilian; Flavian Greek literature; Lost literature -- Reception: The Flavian legacy; Vesuvius and Pompeii; Reception of Flavian literature -- Chronology -- Demographic and other estimates -- Flavian Legionary dispositions -- Lex de Imperio Vespasiani -- Glossary of terms and expressions.;A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE).