Victoria Rimell: 2 books
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Empire's Inward Turn
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas,...
Martial's Rome
Empire and the Ideology of Epigram
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome. The study shows how on every scale from the microscopic to the cosmic, Martial displays epigram's...