Writing Rome textual approaches to the city
The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were generated partly through activities associated w...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge Univ. Press
1996
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Roman literature and its contexts
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Beeldvorming
> Darstellung
> Historia antiga - roma (sociedade)
> Latein
> Latijn
> Letterkunde
> Literatur
> Literatura latina (historia e critica)
> Littérature - Influence romaine
> Littérature et société - Rome
> Littérature latine - Histoire et critique
> Rome (Italie) dans la littérature
> Rome dans la littérature
> Vie urbaine dans la littérature
> Villes dans la littérature
> Cities and towns in literature
> City and town life in literature
> Latin literature
> History and criticism
> Literature and society
> Literature, Modern
> Roman influences
> Geschichte
> Rom
> Rome (Italy)
> In literature
> Rome
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were generated partly through activities associated with particular places, but Rome also took on meanings from literature written about the city: stories of its foundation, praise of its splendid buildings, laments composed by those obliged to leave it. Ancient writers made use of the city to explore the complexities of Roman history, power and identity. This book aims to chart selected aspects of Rome's resonance in literature and the literary resonance of Rome. A wide range of texts are explored, from later periods as well as from antiquity, since, as the author hopes to show, Gibbon, Goethe, and others can be revealing guides for the literary topography of ancient Rome. |
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| Beschreibung: | XII, 146 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0521550807 0-521-55080-7 0521559529 0-521-55952-9 |