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 city took many forms,
including military invasions, natural disasters, public health
crises, and gradual systemic collapses brought on by political or
economic factors. In Roman cities, the memory of such events left
lasting imprints on the city in psychological as well as in
material terms. Individual chapters explore historical disasters
and their commemoration, but others also consider of the effect of
anticipated and imagined catastrophes. They analyze the destruction
of cities both as a threat to be forestalled, and as a potentially
regenerative agent of change, and the ways in which destroyed
cities are revisited - and in a sense, rebuilt- in literary and
social memory. The contributors to this volume seek to explore the
Roman conception of disaster in terms that are not exclusively
literary or historical. Instead, they explore the connections
between and among various elements in the assemblage of
experiences, texts, and traditions touching upon the theme of urban
disasters in the Roman world.
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