Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature

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Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature
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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
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Introduction: Experiments in Plague Discourse
Part I: Tabula Rasa: A New Kind of Plague Narrative
	1: Roman Pestilence: Tenor and Vehicle
		1.1. EXPERIENCING AND OBSERVING EPIDEMIC DISEASE IN ANCIENT ROME
		1.2. THEORIZING FICTIONS OF THE END
		1.3. CAVEAT: ON THE DANGERS OF INVOKING PLAGUE DISCOURSE
	2: Livy, Pestilentia, and the Pathologies of Class Strife
		2.1. PLAGUE AND SEDITIO OF THE FIFTH CENTURY
		2.2. PESTILENCE AND THE LECTISTERNIUM OF 399 BCE
		2.3. PLAGUE AND ROME’S LUDI SCAENICI
Part II: Experiments in Apocalyptic Thinking
	3: Human and Civic Corpora in Lucretius’ Athenian Plague
		3.1. TRANSGRESSING THE THRESHOLD OF DEATH
		3.2. REPETITION, ACCUMULATION, AND ITERATIVE MORTALITY
		3.3. CONTENDING FOR “ONE’S OWN”: FAMILIAL DEVOTION AND CIVIC DISCORD
		3.4. TERMINATING THE INTERMINABLE: SAECULAR AND LITERARY EVOLUTIONS
	4: Plague, Civil War, and Epochal Evolution in Vergil’s Georgics
		4.1. PLAGUE AND THE (POST-)APOCALYPSE: INVERTING THE AGES IN VERGIL’S NORICUM
		4.2. BEES AND THE BODY POLITIC
		4.3. CODA: THE CRETAN PLAGUE OF AENEID 3
	5: Ovid’s Origin of the Myrmidons and the New Augustan Order
		5.1. NORICUM IN AEGINA: OVID’S GEORGIC PLAGUE
		5.2. THE TIES THAT BIND: FAMILIAL BONDS AND THE AEGINETAN PLAGUE
		5.3. THE OLD PIETAS OF AEGINA AND THE AUGUSTAN PRINCIPATE
		5.4. TOWARD A NEW KIND OF PIETAS
		5.5. ANTS AS CITIZENS: ANTICIPATING ANOTHER DREAM OF PLAGUE
		5.6. NO ONE WANTS A PLAGUE, OF COURSE: A CHANCE TO BEGIN AGAIN
		5.7. CODA: METAMORPHOSES 15
Part III: Transmitting Roman Plague
	6: Imperial Receptions: Lucan, Seneca, and Silius Italicus
		6.1. LUCAN AND THE RABIES OF CIVIL WAR
		6.2. QUASI-PLAGUE AND FAILED CLOSURE IN BELLUM CIVILE
		6.3. SENECA’S OEDIPUS
		6.4. REFRACTIONS OF A NEW ORDER
		6.5. PRO MISERA PIETAS!
		6.6. PLAGUE, INDIVIDUALISM, AND EXEMPLARY BEHAVIOR IN SILIUS ITALICUS’ PUNICA
	7: Relapse: Transmitting Roman Plague in the West
		7.1. ENDELECHIUS AND PAULUS: CHRISTIAN VISIONS OF A NEW JERUSALEM
		7.2. VISIONS OF CHAOS, MANIFESTATIONS OF ORDER: PLAGUE ICONOGRAPHY IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND
			7.2.1. Raphael’s Plague of Phrygia
			7.2.2. A Tale of Two Cities: Coppola’s Visions of Naples after the Plague of 1656
		7.3. A NEW ORDER FOR HOMO SAPIENS? FROM BIOPOLITICS TO BIOENGINEERING IN ANGLO-AMERICAN FICTION
		7.4. EPILOGUE
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index