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Author:   Virginia Fabrizi
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   21
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.656kg
ISBN:  

9789004733190

ISBN 10:   9004733191
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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Virginia Fabrizi is Ricercatrice (RtdB) in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has published on Roman epic and historiography, including the monograph Mores veteresque novosque: rappresentazioni del passato e del presente di Roma negli Annales di Ennio (2012).

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