The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn

by Victoria Rimell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107079268
• ISBN13: 9781107079267
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"