{"product_id":"campania-in-the-flavian-poetic-imagination-9780198807742","title":"Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eotium\u003c\/em\u003e, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of\u003cbr\u003edanger: 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\u003cbr\u003egeographical 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\u003cbr\u003eItalicus, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antony Augoustakis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198807742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntony Augoustakis, \u003cem\u003eProfessor and Head of Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003c\/em\u003e, R. Joy Littlewood, \u003cem\u003eIndependent scholar, based in Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAntony Augoustakis is Professor and Head of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eStatius, \u003c\/em\u003e Thebaid \u003cem\u003e8\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2016), \u003cem\u003eMotherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2010), and \u003cem\u003ePlautus' Mercator\u003c\/em\u003e (Bryn Mawr, 2009), and has also edited and co-edited several volumes on Flavian epic, Roman comedy, and late antiquity. He is currently completing a commentary on Silius Italicus' \u003cem\u003ePunica\u003c\/em\u003e 3 with R. Joy Littlewood and serves as editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Classical Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eR. Joy Littlewood is an independent scholar based in Oxford. She has published commentaries on Ovid's \u003cem\u003eFasti\u003c\/em\u003e 6 (Oxford, 2006), Silius Italicus' \u003cem\u003ePunica\u003c\/em\u003e 7 (Oxford, 2011), and Silius Italicus' \u003cem\u003ePunica\u003c\/em\u003e 10 (Oxford, 2017). Her current research projects include the completion of the fourth volume of J. C. McKeown's commentary on Ovid's \u003cem\u003eAmores\u003c\/em\u003e and a commentary on Silius Italicus' \u003cem\u003ePunica\u003c\/em\u003e 3 with Antony Augoustakis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40143905390707,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e719e68c-74d2-45af-88dc-6e5eddf61a8f.jpg?v=1654608299","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/campania-in-the-flavian-poetic-imagination-9780198807742","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}