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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

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Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Literary CriticismAncient RomeTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0415518423
ISBN13: 9780415518420
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
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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