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Author:   Hunter H. Gardner (Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9780198796428

ISBN 10:   0198796420
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   16 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter List of Illustrations 0: Introduction PART 1: Tabula Rasa: A New Kind of Plague Narrative 1: Roman Pestilence: Tenor and Vehicle 1.1: Experiencing and observing epidemic disease in ancient Rome 1.2: Theorizing fictions of the end 1.3: Caveat: on the dangers of invoking plague discourse 2: Livy, Pestilentia, and the Pathologies of Class Strife 2.1: Plague and seditio of the fifth century 2.2: Pestilence and the lectisternium of 399 BCE 2.3: Plague and Rome's ludi scaenici PART 2: Experiments in Apocalyptic Thinking 3: Human and Civic Corpora in Lucretius' Treatment of the Athenian Plague 3.1: Transgressing the threshold of death 3.2: Repetition, accumulation, and iterative mortality 3.3: Contending for one's own : familial devotion and civic discord 3.4: Terminating the interminable: saecular and literary evolutions 4: Plague, Civil War, and Epochal Evolution in Vergil's Georgics 4.1: Plague and the (post-) apocalypse: inverting the ages in Vergil's Noricum 4.2: Bees and the body politic 4.3: Coda: the Cretan plague of Aeneid 3 5: That Other Dream of Plague: Augustus' Novus Ordo and Ovid's Origin of the Myrmidons 5.1: Noricum in Aegina: Ovid's Georgic plague 5.2: The ties that bind: familial bonds and the Aeginetan Plague 5.3: The old pietas of Aegina and the Augustan Principate 5.4: Toward a new kind of pietas 5.5: Ants as citizens: anticipating another dream of plague 5.6: No one wants a plague, of course: a chance to begin again 5.7: Coda: Metamorphoses 15 PART 3: Transmitting Roman Plague 6: Imperial Receptions: Lucan, Seneca, and Silius Italicus 6.1: Lucan and the rabies of civil war 6.2: Quasi-plague and failed closure in Bellum Civile 6.3: Seneca's Oedipus 6.4: Refractions of a new order 6.5: Pro misera pietas! 6.6: Plague, individualism, and exemplary behavior in Silius Italicus' Punica 7: Relapse: Transmitting Roman Plague in the West 7.1: Endelechius and Paulus: Christian visions of a New Jerusalem 7.2: Visions of chaos, manifestations of order: plague iconography in the Italian Renaissance and beyond 7.3: A new order for homo sapiens? From biopolitics to bioengineering in Anglo-American fiction 7.4: Epilogue Endmatter Bibliography Index

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This is a seminal book and will remain a reference point...this outstanding work has already changed our knowledge of the late Republican imagery of the pestilence in the political culture and discourses. It is now a must-read for any future research on the plague metaphor(s) applied to the body politic beyond the Latin literature. * Irene Leonardis, Universita di Pavia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

...this outstanding work has already changed our knowledge of the late Republican imagery of the pestilence in the political culture and discourses. It is now a must-read for any future research on the plague metaphor(s) applied to the body politic beyond the Latin literature. * Irene Leonardis, Universita di Pavia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Author Information

Hunter H. Gardner is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches a wide range of courses on Greek, Latin, and the ancient Greco-Roman Mediterranean. She is the author of Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy (OUP, 2013) and co-editor of Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home (with Sheila Murnaghan; Ohio State University Press, 2014).

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