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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Theorising Rome asks the questions: what did 'Rome'--the physical location, the political entity, the literary construct--mean in antiquity? Equally, what has it meant in subsequent centuries? This volume addresses these broad questions in a number...
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Theorising Rome asks the questions: what did 'Rome'--the physical location, the political entity, the literary construct--mean in antiquity? Equally, what has it meant in subsequent centuries? This volume addresses these broad questions in a number of complementary ways, and each chapter shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade--and, in fact, re-theorised--by successive historical periods and literary genres to perform their cultural labour. The contributions here approach this question through the lens of Roman literary, historical and philosophical texts, as well as reception texts which create a new vision of Rome through adaptation, allusion and critique. Whether ancient or modern, these studies show how Rome and Roman texts are recast for each new audience
Introduction. Roman Multiplicities / Rhiannon Evans and Sonya Wurster -- Chapter One. One the Way to Rome in Aeneid 8 / Anne Rogerson -- Chapter Two. Statius' Bellum Civile and the Myth of Roman Luxury / Kyle Conrau-Lewis -- Chapter Three. Venus Genetrix and Caesar's Theory of Rome / Tom Stevenson -- Chapter Four. Theorising Roman Cult: Augustine on Varro / Dougal Blyth -- Chapter Five. Reimagining Late-Republican Rome: The Early Reception of Sallust / Andrew Turner -- Chapter Six. The Roman Construction of Two New Zealand Poets / John Davidson -- Chapter Seven. From Etruria to Empire: Virgil, Georgic and Colonial Representations of the Australian Landscape / Sarah Midford -- Chapter Eight. Rome Away from Home / Rhiannon Evans -- Chapter Nine. Theorising Roman Decline / Sonya Wurster
