The sites of Rome : time, space, memory

Abstract

Introduction: Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination 1. Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void 2. 'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law 3. 'I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal 4. Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome 5. Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 6. The gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope 7. Staging Rome: the renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis 8. Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview 9. Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature 10. The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity'

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