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Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome

Utopia Antiqua: Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Literary CriticismAncient Rome

ISBN10: 0415271274
ISBN13: 9780415271271
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Evans explores the tropes of the utopian and dystopian in ancient Roman texts. She addresses the ways in which concepts of the idealized and degenerate functioned as metaphor and symbol in Roman discourses. Utopia and its inverse are vital markers of cultural yearning and desire.

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