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  3. The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2015
      June 2015
      ISBN:
      9781139941532
      9781107079267
      9781107437487
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139941532
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 367 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 372 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
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    This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.

    Awards

    Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Classics

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