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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Ethics and Imperial Ideology
Chapter One: The Ethics of Civil War: Competing Communities in Lucan
1. Overview
2. Traditional Roman Ethical Discourse
3. The “Assimilating” Viewpoint
4. The “Alienating” Viewpoint
5. Ethics and Armies in Conflict
6. The Narrator
7. Lucan and Early Imperial Aristocratic Ideology
Chapter Two: Ethics for the Principate: Seneca, Stoicism, and Traditional Roman Morality
1. Overview
2. Stoicism’s Two Regimes of Value
3. Where Does Moral Value Reside? Stoic and Traditional Ethics
4. Who Judges and How? Dilemmas of Internal and External Evaluation
5. The Problem of Exempla
6. Ethics in Julio-Claudian Society: Military Glory and Senecan virtus
7. Ethics in Julio-Claudian Society: Flattery and Stoicism
8. Conclusion
Part Two: Figuring the Emperor
Chapter Three: The Emperor’s Authority: Dining, Exchange, and Social Hierarchy
1. Overview
2. Giving a Dinner: The Convivium as Object of Exchange
3. Speech and Power: Amicable and Hostile Reciprocity in the Convivium
4. Dining with Rulers: The Construction of Imperial Authority
5. Imperial Authority and Gift Giving
6. The Emperor as Gift-Debtor
7. Conclusion
Chapter Four: Modeling the Emperor: The Master-Slave Relationship and Its Alternatives
1. Overview
2. Freedom and Slavery: A Social Metaphor in Political Discourse
3. Father or Master? Two Models for the Emperor in Julio-Claudian Literature
4. Competing Paradigms for the Early Principate
5. Social Inversion and Status Anxiety
6. Status Anxiety and Stoic Remedies
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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