The politics, literature and culture of Ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of specially-commissioned studies, 25 scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance. The studies attend to a diversity of topics, including: the new political settlement; the role of the army; change and continuity in Rome’s social structures; cultural festivals; architecture; sculpture; religion; coinage; imperial discourse; epistemology; political control; rhetoric; philosophy; Greek intellectual life; drama; poetry; patronage; Flavian historians; and amphitheatrical Rome. All the Greek and Latin is translated.