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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination 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. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.
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About the Author
Richard Jenkyns is Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition at the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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book is consistently fresh and illuminating. * G. W. Bowersock, Common Knowledge * Jenkyns combines literary criticism with a rigorous historical sense. * Kathleen Coleman, Journal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford * [A] fascinating exploration of the Roman mind and its perception of the surrounding world ... Jenkyn's wide-ranging study promises to become a basic reference for examining Roman attitudes towards the world around them and the gods which shared that space with them. His linguistic studies, interpretations of literary texts and observations about architectural features of the ancient city will be of interest to scholars in a wide variety of fields. * Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Classical Journal *
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 019967552X
- ISBN 13 9780199675524
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages420
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