Description: Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography, topography and monumentality that dominates Augustan culture and – in particular – Augustan poetry and poetics. Contributors to the present volume bring a range of approaches to bear on the works of Horace, Virgil, Propertius and Ovid, and explore their construction and representation of Greek, Roman and imperial space; centre and periphery; relations between written monuments and the physical City; movement within, beyond and away from Rome; gendered and heterotopic spaces; and Rome itself, as caput mundi, as cosmopolis and as 'heavenly city'. The introduction considers the wider cultural importance of space and monumentality in first-century Rome, and situates the volume's key themes within the context of the spatial turn in Classical Studies.
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EAN: 9781009176071
UPC: 9781009176071
ISBN: 9781009176071
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Format: Hardback, 320 pages
Author: Monica R. Gale (Edited by)
Book Title: The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topo
Item Height: 1.8 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.54 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
