All Roads Lead to Home: Navigating Self and Empire in Early Imperial Latin Poetry

• Main Author: MEIJER, ESTHER
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Flavian literature; poetry; identity; imperialism; genre; intertextuality; Lucan; Seneca; Statius; Native Bay
• Online Access: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14223/; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14223/1/Meijer,Esther_PhD-Dissertation_2021_Navigating-Self-and-Empire-in-Early-Imperial-Latin-Poetry.pdf

This thesis examines how several early imperial Latin poets navigate and define their places, roles, and identities in Roman society, the Empire, and the world more generally. Following the spatial turn in the humanities and employing the concepts of collective memory and identity, I explore how the...