03512nam 2200601 a 450 991045134500332120200520144314.01-281-14963-297866111496350-19-152719-X(CKB)1000000000404757(EBL)415967(OCoLC)476246105(SSID)ssj0000246416(PQKBManifestationID)11216044(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246416(PQKBWorkID)10188653(PQKB)10049517(MiAaPQ)EBC415967(Au-PeEL)EBL415967(CaPaEBR)ebr10212181(CaONFJC)MIL114963(EXLCZ)99100000000040475720070509d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sites of Rome[electronic resource] time, space, memory /edited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana SpencerOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (453 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-921749-1 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.A collection of essays exploring how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome. The variety of theoretical approaches stimulates fresh thought about Rome's primacy in Western culture. - ;Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and wLatin literatureHistory and criticismRome (Italy)In literatureRome (Italy)HistoryMiscellaneaRome (Italy)In motion picturesElectronic books.Latin literatureHistory and criticism.945/.632Larmour David H. J(David Henry James),1959-906284Spencer Diana1969-937909MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451345003321The sites of Rome2112885UNINA