The Augustan Space
The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality
Published on 27. June 2024
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-1-009-17607-1 (ISBN)
Description
Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography, topography and monumentality that dominates Augustan culture and - in particular - Augustan poetry and poetics. Contributors to the present volume bring a range of approaches to bear on the works of Horace, Virgil, Propertius and Ovid, and explore their construction and representation of Greek, Roman and imperial space; centre and periphery; relations between written monuments and the physical City; movement within, beyond and away from Rome; gendered and heterotopic spaces; and Rome itself, as caput mundi, as cosmopolis and as 'heavenly city'. The introduction considers the wider cultural importance of space and monumentality in first-century Rome, and situates the volume's key themes within the context of the spatial turn in Classical Studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-17607-1 (9781009176071)
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Introduction: the spaces of Augustan poetry Monica R. Gale; 1. The city in Horace's Sermo: physical spaces and political spaces Sandra Citroni Marchetti; 2. excucurristi a Neapoli: Virgil, Augustus and the art of disappearing Melanie Moeller; 3. Poetic and Imperial spaces in Propertius, Books 1-3 Monica R. Gale; 4. Horace on sacred space: the Odes and Augustan temples Stephen Harrison; 5. Roman topography, politics and gender: the cult of Bona Dea in Propertius 4.9: An answer to Aeneid 8? Jacqueline Fabre-Serris; 6. aurea nunc, olim siluestribus horrida dumis: the luci Molorci and the Augustan space in Virgil's Georgics and Aeneid 8 Florence Klein; 7. Hippolytus and Egeria in the woods of Aricia (Virgil, Aen. 7.761-82 and Ovid, Met. 15.479-551): where Greek myth and Italic myth come together Laura Aresi 8. locum tua tempora poscunt: topography in Ovid's Fasti S. J. Heyworth; 9. imperii Roma deumque locus: Rome as celestial city Gianpiero Rosati; 10. The rise and fall of Virgil's sublime carthage Siobhan Chomse; 11. Eccentric poetry: Ovid, exile and the prototype of a 'periphery' literature Marco Fucecchi; 12. Virgilian heterotopias: multiple entrances to the underworld Giovanna Laterza; 13. loci desperati: possibilities and boundaries of Augustan conceptions of space Juergen Paul Schwindt.