The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory.

Larmour, David H. J. and Diana Spencer (eds.):

ISBN 10: 0199217491 / ISBN 13: 9780199217496

Editore: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

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XIV, 436 p., ill., maps. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. / Leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut. - Contents: IntroductionRoma, recepta: a topography of the imagination (David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer) -- Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void (Diana Spencer) -- In the name of the father: Ovids Theban law (Micaela Janan) -- I get around: sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal (Paul Allen Miller) -- Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenals Rome (David H. J. Larmour) -- Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus Histories 3 (Rhiannon Ash) -- The Gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarchs Roman meta-chronotope (Jason Banta) -- Staging Rome: the Renaissance, Rome, and humanisms classical crisis (Jacob Blevins) -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview (Caroline Vout) -- Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens literature (Marina Balina) -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellinis films: not a human habitation but a psychical entity (Elena Theodorakopoulos). ISBN 9780199217496 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 Original hardcover with dust jacket.

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• Titolo: The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory.
• Editore: Oxford : Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199217491
• ISBN 13: 9780199217496
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Gut
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Peso: 630 grammi
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Riassunto

Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This collection of essays offers glimpses, sideways glances and unexpected angles that open up Rome in its widest possible sense, and explores 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 analyses are informed by contemporary critical thinking and draw on ancient historical narrative, Roman poetry, Renaissance literature and cartography, art of the Grand Tour era, Russian and Soviet interpretations, and twentieth-century cinema.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.