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Space, Narrative, and Historical Imagination in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
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Virginia Fabrizi
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2025
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The surviving books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (written ca. 30 – 15 BCE), narrate the origins of Rome, the gradual growth of the city, and its rise to Mediterranean hegemony. This monograph reads Livy’s work as, among other things, a narrative about space – the space of the city and the space of the world which Rome strives to conquer and control. Using a narratological approach, it analyses how the text constructs the settings of historical events through an interplay of historical information, literary or conventional elements, and spatial semantics. In this way, it sheds light on Livy’s interpretation of politics, empire, conquest, and Roman identity.
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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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eBook veröffentlicht am:
4. August 2025
eBook ISBN:
9789004733213
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Frontmatter:
12
Inhalt:
308
eBook ISBN:
9789004733213
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Spatial turn; Aventine; Roman historiography; historiography; narratology; Roman history; Augustus; Augustan age; Latin; Roman Republic; Roman empire; Rome; city; Roman Forum; Palatine; Campus Martius; Military narrative; Roman army; Latin prose; Description; Narration; Focalisation; Spatial semantics; Gender; Roman expansion
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
The envisioned readership of this book includes academic institutes, libraries, scholars and postgraduate students with an interest in Roman historiography or Roman notions of space.
