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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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