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Title The cultural history of Augustan Rome : texts, monuments, and topography / edited by Matthew P. Loar (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto), Stefano Rebeggiani (University of Southern California)
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Monumental Insignificance: The Rhetoric of Roman Topography from Livy's Rome; Chapter 2 Cicero, quid in alieno saeculo tibi?: The "Republican" Rostra between Caesar and Augustus; Chapter 3 The Julian Calendar and the Solar Meridian of Augustus: Making Rome Run on Time; Chapter 4 Monument Men: Buildings, Inscriptions, and Lexicographers in the Creation of Augustan Rome
Chapter 5 The Porticus Liviae in Ovid's Fasti (6.637-648)Chapter 6 Greek Poets on the Palatine: A Wild Cow Chase?; Chapter 7 Ovid's Two-Body Problem; Works Cited; Index
Summary Interdisciplinary study of the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Latin literature -- History and criticism
Geography in literature.
Monuments -- Rome
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Geography in literature
Latin literature
Monuments
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Loar, Matthew, 1984-
Murray, Sarah (Sarah C.)
Rebeggiani, Stefano, 1983-
ISBN 9781108575423
1108575420
9781108635806
1108635806