The sites of Rome : time, space, memory
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- ISBN: 9780191527197 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 019152719X (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9786611149635
- ISBN: 6611149635
- ISBN: 0199217491 (paper)
- ISBN: 9780199217496 (alk. paper)
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1 online resource (xiv, 436 pages) : illustrations, maps - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [385]-418) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : Roma, 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' : Ovid's 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 Juvenal's Rome / David H.J. Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's 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 Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Rome (Italy) In literature Rome (Italy) History Miscellanea Latin literature History and criticism Rome (Italy) In motion pictures HISTORY Topografie Rome |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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