Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
ISBN 13 | 9780190275952 |
ISBN 10 | 0190275952 |
Author | Lauren Donovan Ginsberg |
Language | English |
Book Description | This book offers a new reading of the Octavia as a staging ground in the memory wars surrounding Nero's fall. Through an innovative combination of cultural memory theory and intertextual analysis, Ginsberg argues that the play reimagines the imperial |
About the Author | Lauren Donovan Ginsberg is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on the literature of early imperial Rome, especially drama, epic, and historiography. She is particularly interested in narratives of civil war and the ways in which Roman authors commemorate events that many thought best forgotten. |
Publication Date | 2017-01-19 |
Number of Pages | 248 pages |
Staging Memory, Staging Strife: Empire and Civil War in the Octavia