Poetry written under the Flavian emperors--Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian in 69-96 CE--is generally considered continuous with earlier and later post-Augustan or silver Latin poetry, and so not
really suitable for study as a separate group. However, an August 2003 international colloquium in Groningen focused on it as a way of narrowing the over-broad field of silver Latin poetry.
These 21 essays are revised from presentations there. They consider such aspects as the encomium as aestheticization of power, linking the Saguntum and Cannae episodes in Silius Italicus'
Punica, and the unity of Martial's metres. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
