The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography

ISBN-13: 9781108480604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 204 str.

Matthew P. Loar; Sarah C. Murray; Stefano Rebeggiani

Opis

Interdisciplinary study of the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome.

Recenzje

'… the volume is well produced, with a solid general index … graduate students and scholars of Augustan Rome, as well as those working at the interstices of texts and monuments, will find many worthwhile individual pieces and points of provocation to chew on in this collection.' Evan Jewell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction Matthew P. Loar, Sarah C. Murray and Stefano Rebeggiani; 1. Monumental insignificance: the rhetoric of Roman topography from Livy's Rome D. S. Levene; 2. Cicero, quid in alieno saeculo tibi? The 'republican' rostra between Caesar and Augustus Thomas Biggs; 3. The Julian Calendar and the Solar Meridian of Augustus: making Rome run on time Peter Heslin; 4. Monument men: buildings, inscriptions, and lexicographers in the creation of Augustan Rome Dan-el Padilla Peralta; 5. The Porticus Liviae in Ovid's Fasti (6.637–648), Part I: things; Part II: words Maddalena Bassani and Francesca Romana Berno; 6. Greek poets on the Palatine: a wild cow chase? Carolyn MacDonald; 7. Ovid's two-body problem Stephanie Ann Frampton.