Space, Narrative, and Historical Imagination in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita /

Space, Narrative, and Historical Imagination in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita /

The surviving books of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (written ca. 30 - 15 BCE), narrate the origins of Rome, the gradual growth of the city, and its rise to Mediterranean hegemony. This monograph reads Livy's work as, among other things, a narrative about space - the space of the city and the spa...

Full description

Saved in:

Main Author: Fabrizi, Virginia (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 21.

Subjects:

Classical Studies.

Online Access: Login to view Source

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3

Save to List Photographic Request Become a member
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations
  • Introduction: Space, Narrative, and Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
  • 1 The City, the World, and the Space of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
  • 2 Space, Human Experience, and Narrative
  • 3 Space, Roman Historiography, and the Ab Urbe Condita
  • 4 Space in the Ab Urbe Condita: State of the Art and Open Questions
  • 5 A Narratology of Space
  • 6 An Outline of This Book
  • 1 Strife, Reconciliation, and Change in the Forum Romanum
  • 1 Writing the City
  • 2 Setting the Scene: Livy's Forum
  • 3 A Space Torn Apart: the Forum in Livy's Struggle of the Orders
  • 4 Forum and Curia in an Expanding World
  • 5 Permanence, Change, and Political Symbolism in Livy's Forum
  • 2 The Space of the City
  • 1 Founding the City: Book 1
  • 2 The Capitol
  • 3 Other Hills
  • 4 The Campus Martius
  • 5 Boundaries: Tiber, Walls, Gates, and Janiculum
  • 6 Synthetic Views of the City Space
  • 7 Rome in the Ab Urbe Condita
  • 3 The Space of Battle
  • 1 Shaping Military Space in the Ab Urbe Condita
  • 2 Standard Military Space
  • 3 Topography
  • 4 The Spatial Vocabulary of Battle: War, Conquest, and Control
  • 4 The Semantics of Space and Gender
  • 1 Space, Gender, and Narrative
  • 2 Spatial Transgressions I: Men in (Other Men's) Private Spaces
  • 3 Spatial Transgressions II: Women in Public Space
  • 4 Liminal Spaces
  • 5 Subverting Roman Space I: Verginia and the Decemvirate
  • 6 Subverting Roman Space II: the Bacchanalian Scandal
  • 7 Gender, Power, and Space in the Ab Urbe Condita
  • Conclusions: Livy's Vocabulary of Space
  • 1 Space, Semantics, and Historical Imagination
  • 2 Relational Space, Control, and Emotion
  • 3 How to Make the State Function: Space and Livy's Political Vision
  • Referenced Works
  • Index.