The Cry of Laocoön. Myths and Countermyths of the Founding of Cities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: With and Against Rome 1
5. I Before Paris
6. “Le Jour de Gloire” – Augustine of Hippo on Glory, Renewal, and the Law of War in the City of God (Book 1) 11
7. Second Romes, and no Sense of an Ending 31
8. II Early Classicisms
9. Néron et Louis XIV au miroir racinien : monstre ou grand prince naissant ? 51
10. Versailles, A New Rome? Perrault and the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns 67
11. III Classicism Enlightened and Revolutionized
12. Translatio laudum. Rubens’ Maria de’ Medici cycle, and Voltaire’s Henriade 89
13. Jacques-Louis David’s Roman Revolutions in Paris 113
14. IV Romanticism and Realism
15. Heinrich von Kleist’s Napoleanic Romans in the Teutonic Woods 143
16. Empire – Typologie – Apocalypse 161
17. V Palimpsests beyond Origins
18. Calendars, Commemoration, Containment: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre(s) and Roman Practices of Commemorating Defeat 183
19. The Cry of Laocoön. Myths and Countermyths of the Founding of Cities 201
20. Epilogue: Before Rome 223
21. List of Contributors 227
22. Figure Credits 229