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Zusatztext As a keen reader of Vitruvius he has delivered a substantial contribution in weeding out old prejudices against Vitruvius and building up a worthy position for him as a qualified literary writer well versed in the literary traditions. Informationen zum Autor John Oksanish is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Languages at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Professor Oksanish received his PhD in Classical Philology from Yale University in 2011 and has published scholarship on Vitruvius's work De architectura (On architecture) and Latin pastoral poetry. Klappentext This book reconsiders the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise! On Architecture. The ideal! "Vitruvian" man is not simply an architect in the narrow sense. He is a builder of Augustus' legacy! and the archetype for a distinctly imperial ethos of civic expertise. Zusammenfassung This book reconsiders the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture. The ideal, "Vitruvian" man is not simply an architect in the narrow sense. He is a builder of Augustus' legacy, and the archetype for a distinctly imperial ethos of civic expertise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Vitruvius, man? Chapter 2: History from the ground up: Vitruvius's"textual" monuments Chapter 3: The body in brief: De architectura and the limits of somatic synopsis Chapter 4: Introducing the architectus Chapter 5: Bodies as Behavior: Corpus architectorum Epilogue: Alternate realities: a palimpsestic corpus APPENDIX: SUMMARY OF CONTENTS OF DE ARCHITECTURA Works cited
