Urban Disasters and Other Romes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. Abbreviations XI
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Literary Elaborations of the Urbs Capta Motif
8. Urban Disasters and Other Romes 17
9. “One city captures us” 33
10. Pliny’s Telemacheia 49
11. Part II: The Causes of Urban Disasters
12. Rome’s Sicilian Disaster 73
13. Winning Too Well 93
14. Urbs/Orbis 115
15. Horace on Moral Clades in Odes 3.6 and the Carmen saeculare 131
16. Part III: Commemoration of Disasters
17. The Unmaking of Rome 155
18. Josephus’ Memory of Jerusalem 181
19. The Sacks of Rome, 390 BCE–2017 CE 201
20. Bibliography 235
21. List of Contributors 261
22. Index Locorum 263
23. General Index 273