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Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Catharine Edwards
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| Series | Roman Literature and its Contexts |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:164 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 127 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - classical, early and medieval |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521559522
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| Classifications | Dewey:870.93237 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
4 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
10 October 1996 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
What did the city of Rome mean to ancient Romans? Roman writers, Cicero, Virgil, Juvenal and others, described their city in many different ways: they marveled at its beauty, they despaired of its dirt, they explored its history, they lamented its absence. Their writings have played a vital part in determining responses to the city both in their own time and in later centuries. This book explores a wide range of descriptions of the city from later periods as well as from antiquity.
Reviews"...[a] rich volume..." New York Sun "...this stimulating book... ...led me to think in fresh ways about the peculiar dynamic of Roman literature..." Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "...this stimulating book...led me to think in fresh ways about the peculiar dynamic of Roman literature in which global assertations are intimately connected to specific persons and places." Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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