LEADER 03512nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910451345003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-14963-2 010 $a9786611149635 010 $a0-19-152719-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000404757 035 $a(EBL)415967 035 $a(OCoLC)476246105 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246416 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11216044 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246416 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188653 035 $a(PQKB)10049517 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415967 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10212181 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL114963 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000404757 100 $a20070509d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe sites of Rome$b[electronic resource] $etime, space, memory /$fedited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (453 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-921749-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-418) and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aA 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 w 606 $aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism 607 $aRome (Italy)$xIn literature 607 $aRome (Italy)$xHistory$vMiscellanea 607 $aRome (Italy)$xIn motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLatin literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a945/.632 701 $aLarmour$b David H. J$g(David Henry James),$f1959-$0906284 701 $aSpencer$b Diana$f1969-$0937909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451345003321 996 $aThe sites of Rome$92112885 997 $aUNINA