Writing Rome: Textual Approaches To The City - Brossura

Edwards, Catharine

 
9780521559522: Writing Rome: Textual Approaches To The City

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This book explores a wide range of descriptions of the city of Rome from later periods as well as from antiquity.

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Recensione

"...[a] rich volume..." New York Sun

"...this stimulating book.... ...led me to think in fresh ways about the peculiar dynamic of Roman literature...." Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"...this stimulating book....led me to think in fresh ways about the peculiar dynamic of Roman literature in which global assertations are intimately connected to specific persons and places." Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Descrizione del libro

What did the city of Rome mean to ancient Romans? The writings of Roman writers Cicero, Virgil, Juvenal and others, have played a vital part in determining responses to the city both in their own time and in later centuries. This book explores a wide range of descriptions of the city from later periods as well as from antiquity.

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9780521550802: Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521550807 ISBN 13:  9780521550802
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1996
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