Cultural History of Augustan Rome - Texts, Monuments, and Topography

This volume explores the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome. Targeting scholars of both literature and material culture, its interdisciplinary studies range from canonical authors (such as Cicero, Livy, and Ovid) to iconic monuments (such as the Rostra, Pantheon, and Meridian of Augustus).

List of contents

Introduction Matthew P. Loar, Sarah C. Murray and Stefano Rebeggiani; 1. Monumental insignificance: the rhetoric of Roman topography from Livy's Rome D. S. Levene; 2. Cicero, quid in alieno saeculo tibi? The 'republican' rostra between Caesar and Augustus Thomas Biggs; 3. The Julian Calendar and the Solar Meridian of Augustus: making Rome run on time Peter Heslin; 4. Monument men: buildings, inscriptions, and lexicographers in the creation of Augustan Rome Dan-el Padilla Peralta; 5. The Porticus Liviae in Ovid's Fasti (6.637-648), Part I: things; Part II: words Maddalena Bassani and Francesca Romana Berno; 6. Greek poets on the Palatine: a wild cow chase? Carolyn MacDonald; 7. Ovid's two-body problem Stephanie Ann Frampton.

About the author

Matthew P. Loar is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he specializes in the literary and visual culture of late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He has co-edited, with Carolyn MacDonald and Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge, 2017).Sarah C. Murray is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Trade, Imports, and Institutions 1300–700 BCE (Cambridge, 2017).Stefano Rebeggiani is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the Thebaid (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Matthew P. (University of Nebraska Loar
• Assisted by: Matthew P. Loar (Editor), Matthew P. (University of Nebraska Loar (Editor), Sarah C. Murray (Editor), Sarah C. (University of Toronto) Murray (Editor), Stefano Rebeggiani (Editor), Stefano (University of Southern California) Rebeggiani (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9781108727792
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72779-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Ancient / General, History of Art, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE