The sites of Rome [electronic resource] : time, space, memory / edited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer.

Contributor(s): Larmour, David H. J. (David Henry James), 1959- | Spencer, Diana, 1969- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 436 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Latin literature -- History and criticism | Rome (Italy) -- In literature | Rome (Italy) -- History -- Miscellanea | Rome (Italy) -- In motion picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 945/.632 LOC classification: DG809 | .S58 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-418) and indexes.

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.

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