The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory

2007 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Contents: Introduction - Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer 1. Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void by Diana Spencer 2. 'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law by Micaela Janan 3. 'I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal by Paul Allen Miller 4. Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome by David H. J. Larmour 5. Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 by Rhiannon Ash 6. The Gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope by Jason Banta 7. Staging Rome: the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis by Jacob Blevins 8. Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview by Caroline Vout 9. Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature by Marina Balina 10. The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' by Elena Theodorakopoulos Bibliography General Index Index of Passages Discussed.…