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The Cultural History of Augustan Rome Texts, Monuments, and Topography. [electronic resource] : - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. - 1 online resource (208 p.)

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Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Monumental Insignificance: The Rhetoric of Roman Topography from Livy's Rome; Chapter 2 Cicero, quid in alieno saeculo tibi?: The "Republican" Rostra between Caesar and Augustus; Chapter 3 The Julian Calendar and the Solar Meridian of Augustus: Making Rome Run on Time; Chapter 4 Monument Men: Buildings, Inscriptions, and Lexicographers in the Creation of Augustan Rome Chapter 5 The Porticus Liviae in Ovid's Fasti (6.637-648)Chapter 6 Greek Poets on the Palatine: A Wild Cow Chase?; Chapter 7 Ovid's Two-Body Problem; Works Cited; Index

Interdisciplinary study of the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome.

ISBN: 1108575420 9781108575423

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Latin literature--History and criticism.
Geography in literature.
Monuments--Rome.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PA6042 / .C85 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 937/.07