Building in Words: Representations of the Process of Construction in Latin Literature

ISBN-13: 9780197610688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Bettina Reitz-Joose

Recenzje

In the scholarship on 'written Rome' there is nothing like this fine book. Reitz-Joosse expertly studies for the first time how the process of constructing architectural projects (walls, bridges, water-works, obelisks, roads, temples, statues, and cities) is represented throughout early imperial Latin literature, with productive forays, too, into later periods. The rich discussions of well-chosen test cases are informed by an understanding of representational strategies in other media and attentive to the metaliterary significance of the theme.

O autorze

Bettina Reitz-Joosse is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Groningen (Netherlands).