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The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography
Matthew P. Loar
(Illustrated by)
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Sarah C. Murray
(Illustrated by)
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Stefano Rebeggiani
(Illustrated by)
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Cambridge University Press
· Hardcover
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography - Loar, Matthew P. ; Murray, Sarah C. ; Rebeggiani, Stefano
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Synopsis "The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography"
This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and material evidence to write viable cultural histories of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, and what are the limits of these kinds of analysis? The studies gathered here range from monumental absences to monumental texts, from canonical Roman authors such as Cicero, Livy, and Ovid to iconic Roman monuments such as the Rostra, Pantheon, and Solar Meridian of Augustus. Each chapter examines what the texts in, on, and about the city tell us about how the ancients thought about, interacted with, and responded to their urban-monumental landscape. The result is a volume whose methodological and heuristic techniques will be compelling and useful for all scholars of the ancient Mediterranean world.
