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.
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What did the city of Rome mean to ancient Romans? Roman writers, Cicero, Virgil, Juvenal and others, described their city in many different ways. Their writings have played a part in determining responses to the city in their own time as well as in later centuries.
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Freud, in his essay 'Civilisation and its Discontents' (published in 1930), takes as an analogy for the human mind the city of Rome. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exile poems, exile poetry, material city, late republic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jupiter Feretrius, Julius Caesar, Campus Martius, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Augustan Rome, Ovid's Fasti, Forum Romanum, Black Sea, Jupiter Capitolinus, Livy's Camillus, Magister Gregorius, Juno Moneta, Pontifex Maximus, Propertius Book, Santa Maria New!
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Freud, in his essay 'Civilisation and its Discontents' (published in 1930), takes as an analogy for the human mind the city of Rome. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
exile poems, exile poetry, material city, late republic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jupiter Feretrius, Julius Caesar, Campus Martius, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Augustan Rome, Ovid's Fasti, Forum Romanum, Black Sea, Jupiter Capitolinus, Livy's Camillus, Magister Gregorius, Juno Moneta, Pontifex Maximus, Propertius Book, Santa Maria New!
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- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature by Emily Gowers in Back Matter
- Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Oxford-Warburg Studies) by Momigliano in Back Matter
- Julius Caesar by Michael Grant on page 65
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- Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World by Judith M. Lieu on page 213, and Back Matter
- Women's Influence on Classical Civilization by Eireann Marshall on page 91, and Back Matter
- Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Desmond Harding in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion) by Elizabeth Castelli in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by Stephen Harrison in Front Matter
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