God, space & city in the Roman imagination / Richard Jenkyns.

Main entry:

Jenkyns, Richard, author.

Title & Author:

God, space & city in the Roman imagination / Richard Jenkyns.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Description:

x, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-373) and indexes.
The public eye -- The private realm -- Business and pleasure -- Rome imagined -- Movement in the city -- Roman religions -- The divine encounter -- Patina and palimpsest -- Interiors -- Rome's monuments.

Summary:

This study 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, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD.

ISBN:

9780199675524 (hardback)
019967552X (hardback)
(electronic bk.)
019166300X
9780191663000

Subject:

Architecture, Roman.
Sacred space Rome.
Architecture romaine.
Lieux sacrés Rome.
Civilization.
Religion.
Sacred space.
Arkitektur.
Heliga platser.
Latinsk poesi historia.
Rome Civilization.
Rome Religion.
Rome Civilisation.
Rome (Empire)

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God, space, and city in the Roman imagination

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Location: Library main 284700
Call No.: BIB 223802
Status: Available

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