The Cultural History of Augustan Rome by Matthew P. Loar, Sar... - 9781108480604

The Cultural History of Augustan RomeTexts, Monuments, and Topography\nAuthor(s): Matthew P. Loar, Sarah C. Murray, Stefano Rebeggiani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108480604, 978-1108480604\nSynopsis\nThis volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and material evidence to write viable cultural histories of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, and what are the limits of these kinds of analysis? The studies gathered here range from monumental absences to monumental texts, from canonical Roman authors such as Cicero, Livy, and Ovid to iconic Roman monuments such as the Rostra, Pantheon, and Solar Meridian of Augustus. Each chapter examines what the texts in, on, and about the city tell us about how .