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1. Acton, Karen Louise. Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE.

Degree: PhD, Greek & Roman History, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84632

► When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military chaos forced the people of Rome to confront… (more)

▼ When civil war broke out in 68 CE, the succession of imperial candidates and the ensuing military chaos forced the people of Rome to confront their system of government and their understanding of imperial power. In order to restore peace, Vespasian had to translate his military victory into stable rule at a point when the concept of the emperor had been under scrutiny. Vespasian’s solution was to construct and maintain an informal personal authority that represented a new model of the imperial office that drew from Julio-Claudian precedents and operated within social and cultural parameters established by his predecessors. However, Vespasian did not seek to present himself as the heir to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, but rather as a new imperial founder, a rival for Augustus; he expressed the difference between himself and his predecessors in his interactions with space in the city of Rome, the religious identity that he adopted, the rustic Italian public persona that he developed, and the way he presented the public image of his family as an imperial dynasty to express Rome’s Flavian future. In creating this model of imperial authority, Vespasian drew from a range of Roman cultural traditions and historical exempla from the Julio-Claudian period and earlier, including narrative topoi, notions of gender and the family, the traditions and memories associated with Roman urban topography, and models of leadership that emerged in military contexts. The early months of Vespasian’s reign, from his acclamation in July 69 to the Flavian triumph of June 71, show how Vespasian’s imperial persona was developed in response to the ideological and political problems that had arisen in the previous century of Julio-Claudian rule, and which the intense experience of the civil war had exposed. By focusing on these early months and considering how Vespasian’s imperial persona was formed over time and in response to a variety of factors, including pressure by Rome’s elite, it is possible to discern Vespasian’s unique conception of imperial power, and to explore how Vespasian and his contemporaries perceived the role of the emperor in Roman society. Advisors/Committee Members: Potter, David S. (committee member), Frier, Bruce W. (committee member), Moyer, Ian S. (committee member), Seo, Joanne Mira (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Tacitus; Rome; Principate; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Acton, K. L. (2011). Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84632

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Acton, Karen Louise. “Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84632.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Acton, Karen Louise. “Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE.” 2011. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Acton KL. Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84632.

Council of Science Editors:

Acton KL. Vespasian Augustus: Imperial Power in the First Century CE. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84632

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2. Fertik, Harriet H. Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2014, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041

► I examine Roman ideas of public and private and their relationship to the conception of absolute power. My study synthesizes a wide range of literary… (more)

▼ I examine Roman ideas of public and private and their relationship to the conception of absolute power. My study synthesizes a wide range of literary and material sources, including tragedy, epic, philosophy, historiography, and the novel, as well as Roman palatial architecture, domestic frescoes, and visual depictions of the Julio-Claudian family. I define privacy as the ability to avoid scrutiny and to act without public consequence, and I argue that lack of privacy became central to understanding the emperor’s role in the early imperial period. Focusing on the public/private dichotomy reveals the complexity of the conception of power relations in the mid-first century CE. While the significance of the imperial domus in political life has been a prominent concern in recent scholarship, I focus on how the public/private dichotomy illuminates the relationship between ruler and ruled: the publicity of the ruler makes him uniquely vulnerable, and this vulnerability threatens the community as a whole. I argue that the ruler is not only an all-powerful father figure, but also a potential target, vulnerable to those closest to him and to the community at large. Furthermore, the vulnerability of the ruler is a concern both for him and for the security of the community. Ultimately, one-man rule produces an intimacy between ruler and ruled that results in the transformation or disruption of all other bonds between members of the polity. I first examine exposure to public view as the defining feature of the ruler’s position in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and On Clemency and in Nero’s palace (the Golden House) and the implications of this exposure for the life of the community. Next, using domestic frescoes with theatrical imagery and Seneca’s Thyestes and Agamemnon, I focus on the ruler’s need to be seen and thus his dependence on and vulnerability to his subordinates. Then, drawing on dynastic sculpture groups, domestic art and architecture, Tacitus’ Annals, Seneca’s tragedies, Petronius’ Satyricon, and Lucan’s Civil War, I analyze the relationship between the house and family of the ruler and the wider community and how the rise of one-man rule creates a new kind of communal identity. Advisors/Committee Members: Potter, David S. (committee member), Gazda, Elaine K. (committee member), Seo, Joanne Mira (committee member), Schultz, Celia E. (committee member), Dufallo, Basil J. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Roman Political Culture; Nero; Seneca; Lucan; Roman Visual Culture; Public and Private; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Fertik, H. H. (2014). Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Fertik, Harriet H. “Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Fertik, Harriet H. “Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome.” 2014. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Fertik HH. Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041.

Council of Science Editors:

Fertik HH. Publicity, Privacy, and Power in Neronian Rome. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/109041

3. Mittal, Rajesh Paul. Time and History in Virgil's Aeneid.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84462

► This dissertation examines the philosophy of history espoused by Virgil in the Aeneid. On the one hand this involves locating the philosophical inspiration behind Virgil’s… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the philosophy of history espoused by Virgil in the Aeneid. On the one hand this involves locating the philosophical inspiration behind Virgil’s diverse references to temporality. On the other hand, it involves considering how Virgil interpreted the momentous historical events that had occurred in his own lifetime. With regard to this second point, I have taken the constructive approach of isolating aspects of the Aeneid that interpret contemporary history, and comparing them to several of Augustus’ public displays from the period following Actium that responded to the same historical stimuli. This approach allows us to see the tremendous rapport that existed between the ways these two conceived of history and historical agency, and indicates that Virgil was much more supportive of Augustus than some have supposed. The two most important philosophical influences on Virgil’s conception of history are Stoicism and Pythagoreanism. With its doctrine of ekpyrosis, the former offered Virgil a model of history that identified destruction with creation, and thus complemented his interpretation of time as a basically sacrificial process. This latter feature is one of the most important aspects of the poem, and I devote significant attention to its presence and function in the Aeneid. This sacrificial conception of history produces a tension that underlies many of the poem’s pivotal moments; Virgil establishes this tension in such a way that it can only be resolved by a permanent escape from temporality. Such an escape was offered by the form of Pythagoreanism that he would have known, and for this reason it is the primary influence behind Virgil’s conception of the afterlife. Virgil’s reliance on these two traditions has led to the existence of two “arcs” in the narrative, and I argue that each of these culminates in a “Golden Age.” Part of his reason for doing this was to accommodate the genuine progress that he had witnessed in his lifetime, largely in the political sphere through Octavian/Augustus. But even the latter, as I argue, was intent upon maintaining the distinction between the temporal and eternal worlds. Advisors/Committee Members: Potter, David S. (committee member), Caston, Victor (committee member), Frier, Bruce W. (committee member), Seo, Joanne Mira (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Virgil's Aeneid; Augustus; Stoicism; Pythagoreanism; Sacrifice; Georgics; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Mittal, R. P. (2011). Time and History in Virgil's Aeneid. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84462

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mittal, Rajesh Paul. “Time and History in Virgil's Aeneid.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84462.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mittal, Rajesh Paul. “Time and History in Virgil's Aeneid.” 2011. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Mittal RP. Time and History in Virgil's Aeneid. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84462.

Council of Science Editors:

Mittal RP. Time and History in Virgil's Aeneid. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/84462

4. Rowland, Jonathan Milton. Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece.

Degree: PhD, Classical Studies, 2012, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985

► In Footnotes to Sappho I explore the poetry of three of the most influential poets of the Hellenistic period: Erinna, Anyte, and Nossis. Very little… (more)

▼ In Footnotes to Sappho I explore the poetry of three of the most influential poets of the Hellenistic period: Erinna, Anyte, and Nossis. Very little of their works survived to the present day; consequently these poets are largely ignored by the scholarly community. Those scholars who do study the female poets tend to understand them as women first and poets second, assuming that their works can inform our understanding of the lives of women in the ancient world. In this dissertation I argue that this understanding impedes our ability to interpret their poetry and attempt to correct this by reading their poems as poems rather than as biographical evidence. Each chapter provides an examination of one author's life and works, beginning with a discussion of ancient testimonia. In the first chapter, "Erinna," I examine the poetry of the fourth-century BCE poet Erinna, whose life, homeland, and date are shrouded in mystery, and even the number of her works is disputed. In both sections, one on her epigrams and one on her famous yet fragmentary work, the Distaff, I examine the ways in which Erinna establishes two oppositions: movement/stasis and performance/text. The next chapter, "Anyte," examines the ways in which Anyte takes advantage of new developments in poetry in order to expand the possibilities for epigrammatic poetry. Anyte exploits the separation of epigram from its inscriptional beginnings by composing poems that never would have been inscribed, such as epitaphs for insects. I argue that many of her epigrams are interrelated and share themes and motifs and that this is evidence of an author (perhaps the first) who wrote poems specifically for a collection. The final chapter, "Nossis," explores the twelve epigrams of the poet Nossis, focusing on her use of polemic to reject men from her potential readership. This rejection is tongue-in-cheek, as an author cannot control who reads a text. Nossis' poetry also illustrates the lack of performance in epigram by configuring a series of poems as a partheneion. Like Erinna and Anyte before her, Nossis is her own poet and deserves to be read as such. Advisors/Committee Members: Scodel, Ruth S. (committee member), Prins, Yopie (committee member), Seo, Joanne Mira (committee member), Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Ancient Greek Poetry; Classical Studies; Humanities

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Rowland, J. M. (2012). Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rowland, Jonathan Milton. “Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rowland, Jonathan Milton. “Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece.” 2012. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Rowland JM. Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985.

Council of Science Editors:

Rowland JM. Footnotes to Sappho: An Examination of the Female Poets of Greece. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93985

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