Table of Contents

David H. J. Larmour & Diana Spencer: Introduction: Roma, recepta: a topography of the imagination
1: Diana Spencer: Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void
2: Micaela Janan: `In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law
3: Paul Allen Miller: `I get around': sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal
4: David H. J. Larmour: Holes in the body: sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome
5: Rhiannon Ash: Victim and voyeur: Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3
6: Jason Banta: The gates of Janus: Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope
7: Jacob Blevins: Staging Rome: the renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis
8: Caroline Vout: Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview
9: Marina Balina: Ancient Rome for little comrades: the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet children's literature
10: Elena Theodorakopoulos: The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films: `not a human habitation but a psychical entity'

About the Author

David H. J. Larmour is Professor and Head of Classics, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University. Diana Spencer is Lecturer in Classics, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.