Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination /

Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination / / ed. by Virginia M. Closs, Elizabeth Keitel.

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events, but also to the imaginary and literary possibilities offered by urban disaster as a figure of thought. Existential threats to the ancient ci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bromberg, Jacques A.,
Chapman, Honora Howell,
Clark, Jessica H.,
Closs, Virginia,
Farrell, Joseph,
Joseph, Timothy,
Kraus, C. S.,
Köster, Isabel,
Nethercut, Jason,
Zanker, Andreas T.,
HerausgeberIn:
Closs, Virginia M.,
Keitel, Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 104
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Literary Elaborations of the Urbs Capta Motif
  • Urban Disasters and Other Romes
  • “One city captures us”
  • Pliny’s Telemacheia
  • Part II: The Causes of Urban Disasters
  • Rome’s Sicilian Disaster
  • Winning Too Well
  • Urbs/Orbis
  • Horace on Moral Clades in Odes 3.6 and the Carmen saeculare
  • Part III: Commemoration of Disasters
  • The Unmaking of Rome
  • Josephus’ Memory of Jerusalem
  • The Sacks of Rome, 390 BCE–2017 CE
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index

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