| Description |
1 online resource (480 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; God, Space, & City in the Roman Imagination; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; 1: THE PUBLIC EYE; 2: THE PRIVATE REALM; 3: BUSINESS AND PLEASURE; 4: ROME IMAGINED; 5: MOVEMENT IN THE CITY; WALKING, RUNNING; FLOW; PRESS; DESCENDING; ENTERING; 6: ROMAN RELIGIONS; 7: THE DIVINE ENCOUNTER; 8: PATINA AND PALIMPSEST; 9: INTERIORS; 10: ROME'S MONUMENTS; List of Works Cited; Index Locorum; Index |
| Summary |
This study is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city. Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gods, Roman.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Civilization
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Gods, Roman
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191663000 |
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019166300X |
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