Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian

Literary Interactions, AD 96–138

Alice König, Christopher Whitton

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781108359566
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia antigua

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?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Bridging Divides: Literary Interactions from Quintilian to Juvenal
• Part II Interactions on and off the Page
• Part III Into the Silence: The Limits of Interaction
• ENVOI/VENIO
• References
• Index Locorum
• General Index