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

Redaktion: Young Myers, Micah; Zimmermann Damer, Erika

• Format: PDF

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
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000427370
• Artikelnr.: 62386212

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