The Cultural History of Augustan Rome
Texts, Monuments, and Topography
Published on 22. May 2019
208 pages
978-1-108-57542-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and material evidence to write viable cultural histories of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, and what are the limits of these kinds of analysis? The studies gathered here range from monumental absences to monumental texts, from canonical Roman authors such as Cicero, Livy, and Ovid to iconic Roman monuments such as the Rostra, Pantheon, and Solar Meridian of Augustus. Each chapter examines what the texts in, on, and about the city tell us about how the ancients thought about, interacted with, and responded to their urban-monumental landscape. The result is a volume whose methodological and heuristic techniques will be compelling and useful for all scholars of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Reviews / Votes
'... 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 ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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File size
5,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-57542-3 (9781108575423)
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Matthew P. Loar | Sarah C. Murray | Stefano Rebeggiani
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome
Texts, Monuments, and Topography
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05/2019
Cambridge University Press
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Content
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.
