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Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry

Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry

Young Myers, Micah
Zimmermann Damer, Erika

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0367638045
ISBN13: 9780367638047
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2021
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome's far-reaching empire.

The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume's discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The collection as a whole offers important insights into Roman poetics and into ancient notions of movement and geographical space.

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