TY - GEN N2 - This work offers a new reading of the Octavia as a staging ground in the memory wars surrounding Nero's fall. Through an innovative combination of cultural memory theory and intertextual analysis, Ginsberg argues that the play reimagines the imperial family as waging war on itself and its people, challenging their claim that with empire came peace. AB - This work offers a new reading of the Octavia as a staging ground in the memory wars surrounding Nero's fall. Through an innovative combination of cultural memory theory and intertextual analysis, Ginsberg argues that the play reimagines the imperial family as waging war on itself and its people, challenging their claim that with empire came peace. T1 - Staging memory, staging strife :empire and civil war in the Octavia / AU - Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PA6664.Z6 ID - 798589 SN - 9780190275976 TI - Staging memory, staging strife :empire and civil war in the Octavia / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190275952.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190275952.001.0001 ER -