Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138). Authors treated include Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus. Key topics and approaches include recitation, allusion, intertextuality, 'extratextuality' and socioliterary interactions.