Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 6
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. 1 Introduction 11
6. I Family Matters
7. 2 Nero’s Divine Stepfather and the Flavian Regime 33
8. 3 The Flavians and Their Women: Rewriting Neronian Transgressions? 55
9. II Building on Nero’s Rome
10. 4 Flavian Architecture on the Palatine: Continuity or Break 89
11. 5 Some Observations on the Templum Pacis: A Summa of Flavian Politics 127
12. III Literary Responses to Nero’s Rome
13. 6 Civil War and Trauma in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 163
14. 7 Imitatio, aemulatio, and Ludic Allusion: Channelling Lucan in Statius’ Thebaid 1.114–164 185
15. 8 Calpurnius Siculus in the Flavian Poets 207
16. IV Presenting the Emperor in Early Imperial Rome
17. 9 How to Portray the princeps: Visual Imperial Representation from Nero to Domitian 245
18. 10 Iuvenis infandi ingeni scelerum capaxque: Flavian Responses to Nero’s Youth 285
19. V Looking Back
20. 11 Historiographical Responses to Flavian Responses to Nero 325
21. Contributors 351
22. Index 353