The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality
The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality edited by Monica R. Gale, Anna Chahoud
English | June 27, 2024 | ISBN: 1009176072 | True PDF | 278 pages | 4.6 MB
English | June 27, 2024 | ISBN: 1009176072 | True PDF | 278 pages | 4.6 MB
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.