The Augustan space: the poetics of geography, topography and monumentality
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 - Aug...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Sammelband |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge New York Port Melbourne
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009176064 |
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| Online-Zugang: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009176064
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| Verfasserangaben: | edited by Monica R. Gale (Trinity College Dublin), Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781009176064 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009176064 |