Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2010
* I am grateful to Rhiannon Ash, Dustin Heinen, Carole Newlands, Andrew Wolpert and the anonymous referee for their helpful comments and corrections. An earlier version of this article was delivered at the 2008 meeting of the Classical Association in Liverpool; I thank Antonios Augoustakis and Eleni Manolaraki for organizing the panel on Flavian literature, and the Department of Classics and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida for generous travel funding.