God, Space, & City in the Roman Imagination

by Richard Jenkyns

God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city.

Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019967552X
• ISBN13: 9780199675524
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"