God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
Richard Jenkyns (Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall)
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
Richard Jenkyns (Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall)
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans’ visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city. Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans’ imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.
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