Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Young Myers, Micah; Zimmermann Damer, Erika

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse to explore how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within and the geography of Rome's far-reaching empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000427455
• Artikelnr.: 62386695

Autorenporträt

Micah Young Myers is Associate Professor of Classics at Kenyon College, USA. He is the co-editor of Walking through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition. He is preparing a monograph on travel in Latin love elegy. Erika Zimmermann Damer is Associate Professor of Classics and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. She is the author of In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy. Her publications also include essays on Tibullus, Propertius, Horace, and graf¿ti from Herculaneum and Pompeii.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Traversing Empire, Micah Young Myers and Erika Zimmermann Damer; 2 The Stage at The Fair: Trade and Human Trafficking in the Palliata, Amy Richlin; 3 Expanding Geographies and Unbounded Subjects in Catullus, Sara H. Lindheim; 4 Arcadia and the Roman Imagination, Eleanor W. Leach; 5 Women's Travels in Latin Elegy, Alison Keith; 6 On the Road with Tibullus: Aporia or Castration as the Way of Love, Paul Allen Miller; 7 Competing Itineraries, Travel, and Urban Subjectivity in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Erika Zimmermann Damer; 8 Statius' Propemptikon and the Geopoetics of Silvae 3.2, Carole E. Newlands; 9 Martial, Spain, and the Girls from Gades: Travel and Identity in Flavian Epigram, Sarah H. Blake; 10 Memory Spaces of Ausonius and Rutilius Namatianus, Grant Parker; 11 Travelers and Texts: Reading, Writing, and Communication on the Roads of the Roman West, Alexander Meyer; Index

Rezensionen

"...The vol>ume overall offers an impressive combination of topics and approaches in current research and is a collection of papers that will undoubtedly take readers on an enthralling and inspir>ing literary journey." - The Classical Review