The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality

Author:   Monica R. Gale (Trinity College, Dublin) ,  Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
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Pages:   278
Publication Date:   27 June 2024
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Author:   Monica R. Gale (Trinity College, Dublin) ,  Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9781009176071


ISBN 10:   1009176072
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   27 June 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Introduction: the spaces of Augustan poetry Monica R. Gale; 1. The city in Horace's Sermo: physical spaces and political spaces Sandra Citroni Marchetti; 2. excucurristi a Neapoli: Virgil, Augustus and the art of disappearing Melanie Möller; 3. Poetic and Imperial spaces in Propertius, Books 1–3 Monica R. Gale; 4. Horace on sacred space: the Odes and Augustan temples Stephen Harrison; 5. Roman topography, politics and gender: the cult of Bona Dea in Propertius 4.9: An answer to Aeneid 8? Jacqueline Fabre-Serris; 6. aurea nunc, olim siluestribus horrida dumis: the luci Molorci and the Augustan space in Virgil's Georgics and Aeneid 8 Florence Klein; 7. Hippolytus and Egeria in the woods of Aricia (Virgil, Aen. 7.761–82 and Ovid, Met. 15.479–551): where Greek myth and Italic myth come together Laura Aresi 8. locum tua tempora poscunt: topography in Ovid's Fasti S. J. Heyworth; 9. imperii Roma deumque locus: Rome as celestial city Gianpiero Rosati; 10. The rise and fall of Virgil's sublime carthage Siobhan Chomse; 11. Eccentric poetry: Ovid, exile and the prototype of a 'periphery' literature Marco Fucecchi; 12. Virgilian heterotopias: multiple entrances to the underworld Giovanna Laterza; 13. loci desperati: possibilities and boundaries of Augustan conceptions of space Jürgen Paul Schwindt.

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MONICA R. GALE is a Professor in Classics at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge, 1994), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (Cambridge, 2000), Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V (2009) and other books and articles on late Republican and Augustan Poetry. She is editor of Classics journal Hermathena. ANNA CHAHOUD is Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of C. Lucili Reliquiarum concordantiae (1998) and of articles on Republican Latin and the Latin language. She also contributed to and edited, with E. Dickey, Colloquial and Literary Latin (Cambridge, 2010) and, with J. N. Adams and G. Pezzini, Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception (Cambridge, 2023).

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