Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
Literary Interactions, AD 96–138

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Alice König (Edited by), Christopher Whitton (Edited by)

9781108420594, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 March 2018

486 pages, 1 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.7 x 2.9 cm, 0.82 kg

'This collection is a jewel box of polished literary paidia, juxtaposing familiar works in unexpected ways and throwing new light on some well-known textual and authorial relationships.' The Times Literary Supplement

This volume is the first holistic investigation of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138). With case studies from Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus among others, the eighteen chapters offer not just innovative readings of literary (and some 'less literary') texts, but a collaborative enquiry into the networks and culture in which they are embedded. The book brings together established and novel methodologies to explore the connections, conversations and silences between these texts and their authors, both on and off the page. The scholarly dialogues that result not only shed fresh light on the dynamics of literary production and consumption in the 'High Roman Empire', but offer new provocations to students of intertextuality and interdiscursivity across classical literature. How can and should we read textual interactions in their social, literary and cultural contexts?

Part I. Bridging Divides: Literary Interactions from Quintilian to Juvenal: 1. Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus Christopher Whitton
2. I will survive (you): Martial and Tacitus on regime change Victoria Rimell
3. Flavian epic and Trajanic historiography: speaking into the silence Emma Buckley
4. Pliny and Martial: dupes and non-dupes in the early Empire William Fitzgerald
5. Paradoxography and marvels in post-Domitianic literature: 'an extraordinary affair, even in the hearing!' Rhiannon Ash
6. Pliny and Suetonius on giving and returning imperial power Paul Roche
7. From Martial to Juvenal (Epigrams 12.18) Gavin Kelly
Part II. Interactions On and Off the Page: 8. Amicable and hostile exchange in the culture of recitation Matthew Roller
9. Images of Domitius Apollinaris in Pliny and Martial: intertextual discourses as aspects of self-definition and differentiation Sigrid Mratschek
10. Reading Frontinus in Martial's Epigrams Alice König
11. Saturninus the helmsman, Pliny and friends: legal and literary letter collections Jill Harries
12. Pliny Epistles 10 and imperial correspondence: the empire of letters Myles Lavan
13. Traditional exempla and Nerva's new modernity: making Fabricius take the cash Ruth Morello
14. Extratextuality: literary interactions with oral culture and exemplary ethics Rebecca Langlands
Part III. Into the Silence: The Limits of Interaction: 15. The Regulus connection: displacing Lucan between Martial and Pliny Ilaria Marchesi
16. Forgetting the Juvenalien in our midst: literary amnesia in the Satires Tom Geue
17. Childhood education and the boundaries of interaction: [Plutarch], Quintilian, Juvenal James Uden
18. Pliny and Plutarch's practical ethics: a newly rediscovered dialogue Roy K. Gibson
ENVOI/VENIO John Henderson.

Subject Areas: Cultural studies [JFC], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Literary studies: general [DSB]