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Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. - Fasti. - Book 6

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The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of Naples was a place of otium, leisure and quiet, repose and literary productivity, and yet also a place of danger: the looming Vesuvius inspired both fear and awe in the region's inhabitants, while the Phlegraean Fields evoked the story of the gigantomachy and sulphurous lakesinvited entry to the Underworld. For Flavian writers in particular, Campania became a locus for literary activity and geographical disaster when in 79 CE, the eruption of the volcano annihilated a great expanse of the region, burying under a mass of ash and lava the surrounding cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum,and Stabiae. In the aftermath of such tragedy the writers examined in this volume - Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus - continued to live, work, and write about Campania, which emerges from their work as an alluring region held in the balance of luxury and peril.

Latin poetry --- Campania (Italy)

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Epic poetry, Latin --- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C --- Poésie épique latine --- Guerre punique, 2e, 218-201 av. J.-C. --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature et guerre --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. --- Rome --- Carthage (Extinct city) --- Carthage (Ville ancienne) --- History, Military --- History --- Histoire militaire --- Histoire --- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. --- History and criticism --- Hannibal, --- Fabius Maximus, Quintus --- In literature --- Poésie épique latine --- Littérature et guerre --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Carthage (Ancient city) --- Carthago (Extinct city) --- Kart Hadasht (Extinct city) --- Qarțājannah (Extinct city) --- Tunisia --- Antiquities --- Literature and the war. --- Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. - Literature and the war --- Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. - Punica. - Liber VII --- Hannibal, - 247-182 B.C - In literature --- Fabius Maximus, Quintus - In literature --- Rome - In literature --- Hannibal, - 247-182 B.C

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The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The literary flourishing of the Flavian age shows that awareness of this canon rather stimulated creative tension. In the changing socio-cultural context, daring innovations transform the genres of poetry and prose. This volume, which collects papers by influential scholars of early Imperial literature, sheds light on the productive dynamics of the ancient genre system and can also offer insightful perspectives to a non-classicist readership.

Latin literature --- Literary form --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- History and criticism --- E-books --- History and criticism. --- Flavian Age. --- canon. --- genre system.