David H. J. Larmour / Diana Spencer (eds.)

The Sites of Rome

Time, Space, Memory
Herausgeber: Larmour, David H J; Spencer, Diana

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays exploring how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome. The variety of theoretical approaches stimulates fresh thought about Rome's primacy in Western culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780199217496
• ISBN-10: 0199217491
• Artikelnr.: 23089335

Autorenporträt

David H. J. Larmour is Professor and Head of Classics, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University. Diana Spencer is Lecturer in Classics, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination
* 1: Diana Spencer: Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or
toppling into the void
* 2: Micaela Janan: `In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law
* 3: Paul Allen Miller: `I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on
the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal
* 4: David H. J. Larmour: Holes in the body: sites of abjection in
Juvenal's Rome
* 5: Rhiannon Ash: Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus'
Histories 3
* 6: Jason Banta: The gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman
meta-chronotope
* 7: Jacob Blevins: Staging Rome: the renaissance, Rome, and humanism's
classical crisis
* 8: Caroline Vout: Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview
* 9: Marina Balina: Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of
classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature
* 10: Elena Theodorakopoulos: The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's
films: `not a human habitation but a psychical entity'