Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature

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Cover Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Contents List of Illustrations 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