Richard Jenkyns

God, Space, & City in the Roman Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780199675524
• ISBN-10: 019967552X
• Artikelnr.: 40185311

Autorenporträt

Richard Jenkyns is Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition at the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of Illustrations
1: The Public Eye
2: The Private Realm
3: Business and Pleasure
4: Rome Imagined
5: Movement in the City
6: Roman Religions
7: The Divine Encounter
8: Patina and Palimpsest
9: Interiors
10: Rome's Monuments
Bibliography
Index