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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (Hardcover)
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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (Hardcover)
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God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination 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. While providing
new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also
offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies
about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.
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